On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 22:00, bp wrote: > I've been at google and the man pages some but still don't quite see > what I'm looking for. > > I have an WAP that can send it's logs to a remote loghost. I'd like to > setup my linux box to accept these log messages and store them in > /var/log/apmessages. I think I can config syslog.conf to do all this, > just haven't found the how yet. > > Anyone have a good primer or such a config or a good HOW-TO page? > > -bp >
The syslogd daemon can be started with the "-r" option which tells the daemon to listen for incoming syslog messages. The port it listens on is 514 and the protocol it accepts is UDP. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-138.html Explaination of Remote Syslog http://www.cse.msu.edu/~westrant/symlink/pages/HoneynetDocs/remote-syslog.htm Complete Reference Guide to Creating a Remote Log Server http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-64.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
