[plug] syslogd question

[Chris Griffin]

Tony,

A thousand times "Thank you". It lives!


At 10:27 6/04/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Chris Griffin wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to set this up and the config of the router end 
> works fine.
> > I have discovered that by default messages issued by the router are using
> > "local7". This being so, I have configured syslog.conf for this, but I
> > never get any data being put into the appropriate file. Tracing the data
> > shows that it is going from the router to the Linux box. I checked the 
> doco
> > on sysklogd (Ver 1.3.31) and it does say "* syslogd has better handling of
> > remote logging capabilities.".
> > Any ideas eg. should I go for syslogd (if so where can I find a version as
> > I am looking for it and as yet, no can find)?
>
>.... have you dstarted syslog with "-r"
>---
>        -r     This option will enable  the  facility  to  receive
>               message  from  the network using an internet domain
>               socket with the syslog service  (see  services(5)).
>               The default is to not receive any messages from the
>               network.
>
>               This option is introduced in  version  1.3  of  the
>               sysklogd  package.  Please  note  that  the default
>               behavior is the  opposite  of  how  older  versions
>               behave, so you might have to turn this on.
>---
>
>Yours Tony.
>
>/*
>  * "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the
>  * same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
>  * --Albert Einstein
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