Re: [LUG] Syslog generator

[John Horne <J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08-Apr-2002 at 16:20:57 Simon Waters wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
> > An end of day problem...:-) Has anyone used a syslog generator with
> > linux? I got one which runs under windows ('kiwi syslog generator'),
> > and it works fine sending syslog messages to a Sun box, but I can't get
> > anything on the linux box. I get no messages, in any logs, at all.
> > Anyone any ideas as to what may be happening (blocking them)? I'll have
> > a think about it tonight, but must admit I'm a bit stumped.
>
> How you start syslogd ? "-r" ?
Oh ,well done! :-) As the man page says allowing 'remote reception' is a
unix default, but not under linux. I assumed syslog was able to receive
remote messages. Anyway, I restarted syslog with '-r', and it all works fine.

> Firewalling?
Yes and no. I disabled ipchains to allow it to work - I had thought of this
one :-)

Alex: thanks for the msg about logger - it was only when I got home that I
found that logger only sends messages to the localhost, so I couldn't use
that anyway.



Many thanks,

John.

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