Article View: ch.comp.os.linux
Article #18214Re: syslogd
From: Erik Verhagen
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
80 lines
4321 bytes
4321 bytes
--------------7F4686C7DBC59BEA9FFA0DD0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Yes there is a man page for syslogd. But it tells perfectly how to forward
messages from one host to another. Not how to recieve messages and dump
them into a log file.
"Brian L. Bowers" wrote:
> Erik Verhagen wrote:
> >
> > The gateway of my LAN to Internet is a ZyXEL router which can send
> > statistics and error messages to a UNIX box using SYSLOG. My question
> > is, how can I configurate syslogd on my linux server to log those
> > messages on it ?
>
> Try the syslogd man page (man 8 syslogd on my Debian Linux box).
>
> In an unusual turn of events, the man page is well written and
> informative. There is a whole section titled "Support for Remote
> Logging" that will take you through changes to the configuration file,
> which port must be open, and which flag to pass to the syslogd daemon
> when it starts.
>
> --
> Brian Lee Bowers | Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center
> blbowers@ahpcc.unm.edu | http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/
> http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/~blbowers
--
("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._
/=====================\ `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`)
| Erik Verhagen | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-'
| vuxy@rocketmail.com | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,'
\=====================/ (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-'
--------------7F4686C7DBC59BEA9FFA0DD0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Yes there is a man page for syslogd. But it tells perfectly how to forward
messages from one host to another. Not how to recieve messages and dump
them into a log file.
<p>"Brian L. Bowers" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Erik Verhagen wrote:
<br>>
<br>> The gateway of my LAN to Internet is a ZyXEL router which can send
<br>> statistics and error messages to a UNIX box using SYSLOG. My question
<br>> is, how can I configurate syslogd on my linux server to log those
<br>> messages on it ?
<p>Try the syslogd man page (man 8 syslogd on my Debian Linux box).
<p>In an unusual turn of events, the man page is well written and
<br>informative. There is a whole section titled "Support for Remote
<br>Logging" that will take you through changes to the configuration file,
<br>which port must be open, and which flag to pass to the syslogd daemon
<br>when it starts.
<p>--
<br>Brian Lee Bowers |
Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center
<br>blbowers@ahpcc.unm.edu | <a href="http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/">http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/</a>
<br><a href="http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/~blbowers">http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/~blbowers</a></blockquote>
<pre>--
("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._
/=====================\ `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`)
| Erik Verhagen | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-'
| vuxy@rocketmail.com | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,'
\=====================/ (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-'</pre>
</html>
--------------7F4686C7DBC59BEA9FFA0DD0--
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<38EB5144.87844736@rocketmail.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<38EA6758.4A5E5A54@rocketmail.com> <38EB4B80.53BC3591@ahpcc.unm.edu>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4b73,4b6128157017b0f5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4b73,public From: Erik Verhagen <vuxy@rocketmail.com> Subject: Re: syslogd Date: 2000/04/05 Message-ID: <38EB5144.87844736@rocketmail.com> X-Deja-AN: 607088735 References: <38EA6758.4A5E5A54@rocketmail.com> <38EB4B80.53BC3591@ahpcc.unm.edu> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------7F4686C7DBC59BEA9FFA0DD0" Organization: [Posted via] Interactive Networx Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: ch.comp.os.linux