Re: Getting Syslog to listen to the network?

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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:00

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In <01bced60$98322e00$c401a8c0@gmp120> "Graham Miller" <graham@gmcs.com.au> writes:

>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.

syslogd -r

>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?

Yep. Just kill the syslogd (and prob. klogd) and restart it with -r flag.

>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?

Find out how syslog is started, and adjust at that point.

Nick.
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