Re: (PM) Syslog doesn't work

John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:32:21 -0800

At 03:35 PM 1/21/98 GMT, Jose' Monteiro wrote:
>I'm using an Office Router and I'm not managing to put syslog to work.
>
>My loghost (linux box) address is properly configured as shown by a
>'show global' command.
>
>With a 'show syslog' i get:
...
>On the loghost have the following syslog.conf directive:
>
>local2.* /var/log/gw1.log

Check the man page for syslogd. Some of the UNIX variants require a change
to the inetd.conf entry for syslog so that it can take syslog messages from
the network. I think it is something like adding a -r option.

JGT
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