[Novalug] SysLogging should be easy right?

Fredrik Nyman fredrik.nyman@gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 12:52:01 EDT 2012


And the next thing is to look at the logger manpage.  logger is your
very best friend ever when troubleshooting syslog.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Don E. Groves, Jr.
<dgrovesjr@gmail.com> wrote:
> See the man pages. The first you should look at is 'man syslogd' and the
> network enabling switches  '-r -l 192.168.26.10'
>
> Also check out:
>
>  http://lonesysadmin.net/2011/01/13/how-to-configure-remote-syslogd-on-red-hatcentos-5/
>    seems to be fairly complete from my experience in the past of enabling
> this feature.
>
> -- Don Jr
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:25 PM, daniel <daniel@yacg.com> wrote:
>>
>> The concept is pretty straight forward.  You set up the process and the
>> firewalls (if any) and the next thing you know, there are logs coming in
>> from external devices to the server you set up right?
>>
>> Well, obviously not easy.  Worse, I'm not finding any useful howto
>> guides.  Anyone know of any?
>>
>> Platform is CentOS 6.x.  All I want to do is catch incoming log messages
>> from a device on the network 192.168.26.10.  Not totally concerned about
>> security though a little of that would be nice.  The device doesn't know
>> how to do encryption though.
>>
>> Anyone know of a good how-to or could offer one?
>
>
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> Don E. Groves, Jr.
>
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