topic Re: Logging syslog to remote server on Linux 2.4.20 in Operating System - Linux

Logging syslog to remote server on Linux 2.4.20

Angie_1 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:04:04 GMT

I need to route DEBUG syslog messages to another system. Can someone give me the syntax please to route DEBUG and anything else higher than this to another server?

Thanks,
Angie

Re: Logging syslog to remote server on Linux 2.4.20

Angie_1 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:06:34 GMT

Also, how do you turn on DEBUG mode? I should have asked that before!

Angie

Re: Logging syslog to remote server on Linux 2.4.20

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:22:03 GMT

You can use something like:

*.debug @remoteserver
*.debug @ip_of_remote_server

On the remote server, you need to enable the receiving of remote logs, normally, configured on /etc/sysconfig/syslog

Re: Logging syslog to remote server on Linux 2.4.20

Angie_1 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:13:07 GMT

Thanks for writing Ivan.
I routed the /var/log/messages file to another server and it seems to be working. But nothing much is logging there. Is there something I can do to produce more logs to go over there? Also will /var/log/messages remain at 0 bytes since its being logged elsewhere?

Thanks,
Angie

Re: Logging syslog to remote server on Linux 2.4.20

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:43:30 GMT

After the changes, you need to restart both syslog servers. Ensure that the -r option is specified on the remote server to allow remote logging.

Re: Logging syslog to remote server on Linux 2.4.20

Stuart Browne — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:00:45 GMT

You should also make sure that you've opened UDP port 514 on the receiving server's firewall.

You can always test by running a command like:

logger -p user.debug This is a test message

It should go through to the logging server's debug catcher.