Thanks for the quick responses! My original message:
> I'm probably doing something silly but this one's got me stumped. I
> recently upgraded a central syslog server from DU 4.0b to 4.0d. When I did
> that the machine stopped accepting syslog requests from remote machines.
> Everything _appears_ to be normal. Any ideas?
Eskil Swahn summarized it nicely:
From: Eskil.Swahn_at_LDC.lu.se
That's not a bug, that's a feature.. (I just love to use that phrase..) =)
You have to create a new file:
/etc/syslog.auth with owner:group root:system and permissions 600.
In this file you list all the machines you want to accept logs from like
this:
machine1.my.domain
machine2.my.domain
.
.
.
There is actually a note about this in the release notes but I missed that
too.. =)
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I also got word of a feature that _is_ a bug (John Speno also send me a
previous post on this from Dr. Thomas Blinn of DEC. The below was more
concise).
From: Gerhard Nolte <gnolte_at_gwdg.de>
you have to add the loogging hosts to /etc/syslog.auth
(each line one host).
The syslogd is broken (it dumps core if you have more than a handfull
logging hosts). DEC sent me a patched version, you can get it from
ftp.gwdg.de:/pub/mpsf/gnolte/syslogd
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Unfortunately this feature is going to cause me a great deal of grief as I
am collecting log entries (SNMP traps) from well over 200 network devices.
So I think I'll be looking for a syslogd without quite so many features.
Thanks to you all for the quick responses.
"Lance A. Brown" <brown9_at_niehs.nih.gov>
"George W. Baltz" <gwb_at_umd5.umd.edu>
Mikael Andersson <mikan_at_elixir.e.kth.se>
John Speno <speno_at_isc.upenn.edu>
Gerhard Nolte <gnolte_at_gwdg.de>
Eskil.Swahn_at_LDC.lu.se
Gerald McLarnon <mclarnon_at_atm.ox.ac.uk>
"Stephan K. Zitz" <zitz_at_aleph.test.net>
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Received on Wed Jul 22 1998 - 01:17:28 NZST