On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 18:02 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote:
Hmm -- from 9.1 to 9.3 syslog has morphed into syslog-ng.
I have my gateway/router set to send syslog info to my SuSE system. This worked fine on 9.1 but I can't figure out how todo it on 9.3.
There are two levels of configuration one can deal with -- the individual package's config file (syslog-ng.conf) or the /etc/sysconfig/syslog file. All the documentation addresses the first, but comments in that file say to leave it alone and use the second. But there is nothing in that file that seems appropriate for enabling external connections.
Anyone have experience with this?
You can unload syslog-ng and go back to syslog (on the DVD) or try using /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.in to configure network logs. <RANT> Another one of those "better" updates to a program (syslog) that used to be fairly easy to configure and now requires six programing classes to understand the conf syntax. This is sure to win over a hole slew of windows converts isn't it. What the f**k does this provide that is any better than plain old syslog? syslog-ng is supposed to allow you to create/write your own filters (if you know "c" programming that is). But whether or not is does depends on whether or not you can define your own facility/level which I cannot see how. And if you can't why change something that just plain works? </RANT> -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge