Hi, I have a pair of firewalls with identical syslog.conf files. Nothing special, just removed all the comments, and added a few lines for npppd log redirection:
# $OpenBSD: syslog.conf,v 1.17 2005/05/25 07:35:38 david Exp $ # npppd by pacija !!npppd *.* /var/log/npppd !* *.notice;auth,authpriv,cron,ftp,kern,lpr,mail,user.none /var/log/messages kern.debug;syslog,user.info /var/log/messages auth.info /var/log/authlog authpriv.debug /var/log/secure cron.info /var/cron/log daemon.info /var/log/daemon ftp.info /var/log/xferlog lpr.debug /var/log/lpd-errs mail.info /var/log/maillog *.emerg * If I rsync syslog.conf from one firewall to another and restart syslogd, everything works as expected. However, if I list file contents with cat in ssh session on one firewall and paste it in vi in ssh session on another one, although I get expected terminal output: pacija@nat2:~ $ sudo /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart syslogd(ok) syslogd(ok) Only syslogd exiting (and not consequent start) is logged: May 3 00:36:57 nat2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15 After this syslogd is shown as running but nothing gets logged to messages, authlog etc. pacija@nat2:~ $ ps ax | grep syslog 27166 ?? Ss 0:00.01 syslogd: [priv] (syslogd) 2840 ?? S 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/syslogd 29084 p0 R+ 0:00.00 grep syslog Is this just my system or someone can reproduce this? What could be the reason for this? Thank you in advance, -- Marko Cupać https://www.mimar.rs
