Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On 11/29/11 1:44 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > On 11/29/2011 12:29 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 29/11/2011 01:28, Kaya Saman wrote: >>> As you know rsyslog works over udp and telnet is a tcp protocol so I >>> enabled tcp on port 514 within rsyslog and telnet'ed from my router to >>> the syslog server.

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On 11/29/2011 12:29 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 29/11/2011 01:28, Kaya Saman wrote: As you know rsyslog works over udp and telnet is a tcp protocol so I enabled tcp on port 514 within rsyslog and telnet'ed from my router to the syslog server. Use netcat to test UDP connectivity -- it's in the

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On 29/11/2011 01:28, Kaya Saman wrote: > As you know rsyslog works over udp and telnet is a tcp protocol so I > enabled tcp on port 514 within rsyslog and telnet'ed from my router to > the syslog server. Use netcat to test UDP connectivity -- it's in the base system as nc(1): % nc -v -u 192.0.

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

Fbsd8 wrote; > > You have never said if you restarted syslog after making your changes to > syslog.conf, you have to reboot your box or restart syslog for the > changes to take effect. Need I point out that the FM says that 'kill -HUP' of syslogd will cause it to reread it's configuration file

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On 11/29/2011 04:18 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog but again something failed with that

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On 11/29/2011 03:13 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Kaya Saman > wrote: Yep! I don't actually run any rules on the firewall even though PF is enabled. it's just meant for fail2ban though. However, disabled PF but still not work

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > Yep! I don't actually run any rules on the firewall even though PF is > enabled. it's just meant for fail2ban though. > > However, disabled PF but still not working :-( Can you at least make a connection from the sending to receiving host/por

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On 11/29/2011 01:50 AM, Jon Radel wrote: On 11/28/11 6:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: However, when using tcpdump it shows that rsyslog is infact receiving information but still unfortunately not logging to file??? # tcpdump -tlnvv -i em0 port 514 tcpdump: listening on em0, link-type EN10MB (Ethe

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On 11/28/11 6:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: However, when using tcpdump it shows that rsyslog is infact receiving information but still unfortunately not logging to file??? # tcpdump -tlnvv -i em0 port 514 tcpdump: listening on em0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes IP (tos 0x0,

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On 11/28/2011 08:58 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 11/28/11 7:09 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is back

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On 11/28/11 7:09 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > [...snip...] >> Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something >> like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. >> >> -- >> Adam Vande More > > Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible > with syslog

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

[...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog but again something failed with that in order to write t

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if there's a syslog alternative out there that will > actually write my network equipments' logs to files. > > After having major issues with syslogd and attempting a thorough debug of > which I posted to this maili

Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

Hi, I would like to know if there's a syslog alternative out there that will actually write my network equipments' logs to files. After having major issues with syslogd and attempting a thorough debug of which I posted to this mailing list and wasn't able to fix even with more experienced pe