On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:33:05PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam <[email protected]> writes: > > > Thanks for your patience Rainer... ok I get it now. But see comment > > at the end. > > After saying that about something at the end.... I forgot to include > it. > > I was just wondering why the example config that comes with the > rsyslog distro leaves out such important stuff as what it takes to get > the server listening for log messages. > > It has a commented section that claims to be about: > `Receiving Messages from Remote Hosts' > > # ######### Receiving Messages from Remote Hosts ########## > # TCP Syslog Server: > # provides TCP syslog reception and GSS-API (if compiled to support it) > #$ModLoad imtcp.so # load module > # Note: as of now, you need to use the -t command line option to > # enable TCP reception (e.g. -t514 to run a server at port 514/tcp) > # This will change in later v3 releases. > > # UDP Syslog Server: > #$ModLoad imudp.so # provides UDP syslog reception > #$UDPServerRun 514 # start a UDP syslog server at standard port 514 > > But it doesn't bother to include the things that make tcp work, like > the all important lines posted by Aaron N. > > $InputTCPMaxSessions 1000 # Maximum TCP sessions (default 200) > $InputTCPServerRun 514 # start up TCP listener at port 514 > > Again thank you both for your input and for website too Rainer. >
Maybe the sample configuration files are for an earlier release of rsyslog. Cheers, Ken _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
