how to log telnet messages to another host?

[zhangjie_1]

how to config the /etc/syslog.conf to log telnet messages?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Can you elaborate more on 'telnet messages'? If you meant the connection information like "telnet/tcp connection from xxxx " etc., then you will need to turn logging on on inetd.

inetd -l

will take care of it. -l is a toggle switch. So, if you don't want the logging on, then simply run it again.. you should see the messages "connection logging enabled/disabled" etc.,

-Sri

[Steven E. Protter]

A few ways:

NFS mount the other host and then mount it and configure syslog.conf to log to the nfs mount.

You can transfer the contents of the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file to another host via regular rcp or scp transfer via cron.

Either solution is vulnerable to networking issues, the latter being better because at least there is a copy of the file left over if the network goes down.

SEP

[zhangjie_1]

ok,thanks very much!