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Re: Syslog messages to a remote machine



Boaz Rymland wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm trying to set a server machine to send it's syslog messages to my machine.
> For that I already managed to send all messages with :
> *.*             @my_machine
> 
> I've verified that indeed I get this on my machine with "tcpdump port 514" . I
> can see messages poring in.
> But, I cant seem to configure my local syslogd to do somethings with those.
> I checked the documentation and found nothing about that. I also tried to add:
> "in.syslog : the_remote_machines_IP" line in /etc/hosts.allow, but it didnt help
> too.
> 
> Can you tip me on how to see (and log) those messages on the remote machine ?(my
> machine).
> 
> TIA,
> Boaz.
> 

Well, found it myself... ;-)

It's not in the configuration files but rather with a -r flag to the syslogd. On
a RH machine, edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog file to add that flag there.

Boaz.

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