[Discuss] Keynotes announced! East coast LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ

2012-03-28 Thread Tom Limoncelli
[Note: Early-bird price ends in 3 days! Don't lose the discount!] The PICC committee is excited to announce our closing keynote speaker: Rebecca Mercuri on The Black Swan and Information Security Dr. Mercuri is the lead forensic expert at Notable Software, Inc. Her caseload has included matters

[Discuss] Help with destination of syslog messages?

2012-03-28 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a test environment consisting of Win 2008 R2 Server and Windows XP w/SP3, both running the latest Snare Agent for Windows, along with RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 6.2 servers, all within a VM environment. I am testing Linux as a central logging option. Snare Agent (free version) uses UDP, so it is

Re: [Discuss] Help with destination of syslog messages?

2012-03-28 Thread Richard Pieri
On Mar 28, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: Traffic is coming in, but I'd love to know where, if anywhere, it is being written. If it doesn't show up in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog then it isn't being written anywhere. The traffic is being dropped. Perhaps your syslog

Re: [Discuss] Help with destination of syslog messages?

2012-03-28 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Perhaps your syslog daemon isn't configured for remote access? That'd be my guess. Debian-universe distributions have remote reception turned off by default. Other distributions probably do likewise. netstat should be able to confirm if it is listening on the syslog port.