[plug] Syslog

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Thomas, Andre wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I seem to be missing something, being still quite new to moulding Linux
> to do what I wish it to do.
>
> I have a firewall running a compressed kernel and another server which I
> want to have the firewall's logs written too.  The fire wall is lfa (?)
> and the server is running redhat 6.2.
>
> On the firewall, the syslog.conf file I have made the following changes:
>
>   *.*   @<IP>
>   *.*   /dev/tty2
>
> When checking the errors on the second console, it comes up with error
> messages logging the syslogd; permission errors.  I take it the server
> is blocking the firewall writing logs to it, but I do not know which
> ports and which config file it would be in.  The syslog daemon starts
> with the -r switch which I believe is necessary for the task I need.

On the "other" machine you need to start syslog with a -r option.

If that machine is RedHat change "daemon syslog" to "daemon syslog -r"

then run "service syslog restart" to reload the daemon and
Roberts your fathers brother.

Yours Tony.

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