Re: Getting Syslog to listen to the network?

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From: Brendan O'Dea
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:00

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In article <01bced60$98322e00$c401a8c0@gmp120>,
Graham Miller <graham@gmcs.com.au> wrote:
>Hi there all,
>
>I've looked through the man page, howtos, and deja news archives trying to
>find out how to make syslog listen to, and log from, the network.
>
>We have a router that uses port 514 to send log info. The man page for
>syslog says that syslogd -r should listen to the network. Can this be done
>without rebooting linux?

Yes.

  # killall syslogd
  # syslogd -r

>I am assuming that I will need to alter the entries in all runlevels in the
>rc?.d directories to reflect the -r switch. Is this correct?

Yes.

Regards,
-- 
Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
Compusol Pty. Limited                  (NSW, Australia)  +61 2 9809 0133

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From: bod@compusol.com.au (Brendan O'Dea)
Subject: Re: Getting Syslog to listen to the network?
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