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5.0.6 syslog to other machines

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: OpenServer 5.0.6 syslogd won't take remote messages
Cc: Hillel <hss@larich.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:20:32 GMT
Message-ID: <20010916132032.C5148@mammoth.ca.sco.com> 
References: <tq9u1pd1l87900@corp.supernews.com> 

Hillel wrote:

> We just upgraded one of our servers from OpenServer 5.0.4c to 5.0.6.
> There are a number of 5.0.4 clients (created with the Embedded
> Configuration Toolkit) that need to log their system messages to this
> server.
> Each has a properly configured /etc/syslog.conf file.  There was no
> problem when the server was running OpenServer 5.0.4, but now the
> 5.0.6 server will not accept any syslog messages from other systems.

> As of version 5.0.5, it was supposed to be impossible to stop a
> server from receiving those messages without removing the
> 514/udp line in /etc/services.

A new flag was added to syslogd: "-r".  Without this flag, 5.0.6 syslogd
does not accept remote messages.  For your purposes you need to add the
flag.  I quote the 5.0.6 syslogd(ADM) man page:

" syslogd can read from:

...

"  o When the -r option is specified, a remote host using an Internet domain
"    socket bound to port 514; see services(SFF)

...

" syslogd understands the following options:

...

" -r      service messages from remote systems (via syslog port).

>Bela<
 

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