On Thursday 04 May 2017 15:35:58 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I hope this post is not completely off topic. I have a small LAN server > (with Kodi) running systemd and I want to use it to receive and store > syslog entries from other devices over the LAN. I want to keep this system > as lightweight as possible, due to its constrained hardware. What is the > best way to go about it and how should I configure systemd? Please be > detailed with your explanations on systemd - my knowledge on this init > system and its manifold applications is quite limited.
It was straight forward. Install syslog-ng, add a configuration to accept
logs over UDP and install logrotate, which brought in cron and configured the
required cron job.
This is the additional configuration file I had to create:
$ cat /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/remote.conf
source net { source net { udp(); };
destination remote { file("/var/log/remote/${FULLHOST}-log"); };
log { source(net); destination(remote); };
I also tried this stanza to bind a LAN IP address for the syslog-ng host to
listen to for connections from the LAN devices, but then syslog-ng failed to
start:
source net { syslog(ip(192.168.1.25) transport ("udp")); };
Perhaps the ethernet was not up at the time and after a few attempts syslog-ng
gave up. I was able to start it manually after boot though.
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Regards,
Mick
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