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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Damien,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ok, I fired it up in the foreground and I got the following results below. I am noticing filter rule “not match” for f_NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL. I guess I am misunderstanding this line. I had set this to the ip address of the firewall. I believe that variable is using a host ip assignment. But I am guessing In might need to change NAMEOOFTHEFIREWALL. Do I need to change NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL to the actual fqdn name? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> -tim</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">syslog-ng starting up; version='3.5.6'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Incoming log entry; line='<14>Feb 24 10:36:41 <a href="http://PA-3020.its.beloit.edu">PA-3020.its.beloit.edu</a> 1,2017/02/24 10:36:41,001801001111,CONFIG,0,0,2017/02/24 10:36:41,144.89.x.x,,edit,admin,Web,Succeeded, vsys vsys1 rulebase security rules <a href="http://admissions.beloit.edu">admissions.beloit.edu</a>,867,0x0'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Filter rule evaluation begins; rule='f_NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL', location='/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/firewalls.conf:22:29'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Filter node evaluation result; result='not-match'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Filter rule evaluation result; result='not-match', rule='f_NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL', location='/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/firewalls.conf:22:29'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Incoming log entry; line='<14>Feb 24 10:36:54 <a href="http://PA-3020.its.beloit.edu">PA-3020.its.beloit.edu</a> 1,2017/02/24 10:36:54,001801001111,CONFIG,0,0,2017/02/24 10:36:54,144.89.41.210,,commit,admin,Web,Submitted,,868,0x0'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Filter rule evaluation begins; rule='f_NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL', location='/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/firewalls.conf:22:29'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Filter node evaluation result; result='not-match'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Filter rule evaluation result; result='not-match', rule='f_NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL', location='/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/firewalls.conf:22:29'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Tim</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> syslog-ng [mailto:<a href="mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu">syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Damian Bell<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 24, 2017 9:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu">syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [syslog-ng] Can't get basic syslog to work for my firewall logs?</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1f497d">Have you disabled any other syslog servers that might be listening on UDP 514? Rsyslog, etc? (ps aux | grep syslog) Try (temporarily) disabling SELINUX and keep firewall turned off. See if you can start syslog-ng in the foreground and see what you get (syslog-ng –Fed)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">Damian</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">Bell</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">Infrastructure Engineer | Support | H Clarkson & Co Ltd</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">Email: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070c0"><a href="mailto:Damian.Bell@clarksons.com" title="Click to send email to Damian Bell"><span style="color:#0070c0">Damian.Bell@clarksons.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> syslog-ng [<a href="mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu">mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tim Tyler<br><b>Sent:</b> 24 February 2017 15:07<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu">syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [syslog-ng] Can't get basic syslog to work for my firewall logs?</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Syslog-ng experts.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> I am very new to syslog-ng. I installed syslog-ng on a fresh Redhat 7.3 server. It defaults working with internal logging. So I configured my firewall to send syslog with facility set to log_user. I turned on Wireshark on the syslog-ng server and observed the firewall sending traffic to the server on udp 514. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">But the syslog server never created the directory structure and logs. I disabled the redhat firewall just to eliminate it as a possibility. Still no logging. So I don’t know what I am doing wrong at this point. I don’t know if this is a permission problem or some other configuration issue. I found someone that had posted a very basic syslog-ng configuration for firewalls. So I copied It into a firewall.conf I put in conf.d. Can anyone see what might be wrong with it?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">####################</p><p class="MsoNormal">options {</p><p class="MsoNormal"> create_dirs(yes);</p><p class="MsoNormal"> owner(root);</p><p class="MsoNormal"> group(root);</p><p class="MsoNormal"> perm(0640);</p><p class="MsoNormal"> dir_owner(root);</p><p class="MsoNormal"> dir_group(root);</p><p class="MsoNormal"> dir_perm(0750);</p><p class="MsoNormal">};</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">##################################################</p><p class="MsoNormal">source s_udp {</p><p class="MsoNormal"> udp(port(514));</p><p class="MsoNormal">};</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">#Template for a new firewall in the firewalls.conf file</p><p class="MsoNormal">#Entries to be changed: NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL and IPOFTHEFIREWALL</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">##################################################</p><p class="MsoNormal">filter f_NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL {</p><p class="MsoNormal"> host("192.168.30.1");</p><p class="MsoNormal">};</p><p class="MsoNormal">destination d_NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL {</p><p class="MsoNormal"> file("/var/log/firewalls/PA/$YEAR/$MONTH/$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY.PA.log");</p><p class="MsoNormal">};</p><p class="MsoNormal">log {</p><p class="MsoNormal"> source(s_udp);</p><p class="MsoNormal"> filter(f_NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL);</p><p class="MsoNormal"> destination(d_NAMEOFTHEFIREWALL);</p><p class="MsoNormal">};</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Tim Tyler</p><p class="MsoNormal">Network Engineer</p><p class="MsoNormal">Beloit College</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif">This message is private and confidential. 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