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Re: [SLE] Problems with syslog
  • From: Jeff Bankston <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 07:04:00 -0400
  • Message-id: <20040809110405.7FACDA0B410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ti Kan wrote:

> Jeff Bankston writes:
>> > On Sunday 08 August 2004 1:39 pm, Suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >> The syslog daemon under this installation isn't registering any input
>> >> at all
>> >
>> > Did you configure the syslog daemon to accept data from the network?
>> > You can
>> > configure this on /etc/sysconfig/syslog. Edit the parameter there
>> > from:
>> >
>> > SYSLOGD_PARAMS="" (the default..no parametes)
>> > to
>> > SYSLOGD_PARAMS="-r"
>> >
>> > restart syslog then...
>>
>> Thanks, that was it. Where in the world can I find what those params
>> mean?
>
> How about "man syslogd" ? :)
>
> -Ti
>
>

Been there, done that, and lots of other pages. No joy. The -r switch did
the trick although I'm still searching docs to find out why.

13 years of using Winblows doesn't change overnight..... thanks, just bought
my first Linux apps over the weekend.

-Jeff

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