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Re: log to a remote syslogd
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:24:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: log to a remote syslogd
- References: <434A53C5.6070708@sgi.es>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Oct 10 13:43, Jaime Saiz Santos wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >> Is it possible to log messages to a remote syslogd server?
> >> In theory it could be done by putting something like "*.*
> >> @hostname" in /etc/syslog.conf.
> >
> >Why don't you just try?
>
>
> Sorry.
> I haven't said I have tried it before: it works for a local file, but it
> does not work (for me) to a remote syslogd.
> So hence the question.
>
> I've looked at previous posts about this issue, but they were more than
> a year old, so I hoped the problem could be solved now.
>
> I put "local1.* @hostname" in syslog.conf
>
> and then:
>
> $ net stop syslogd
> $ net start syslogd
> $ logger -p local1.info Message to hostname
>
> But I don't found the message anywere, nor in the local
> /var/log/messages nor in the remote one.
You must allow logging from remote hosts on the target machine. See the
syslogd -s option. Remote logging from a Cygwin client syslogd to a
Linux syslogd works fine here.
Corinna
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