log to a remote syslogd
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Oct 10 12:24:00 GMT 2005
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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