<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you. It does look like it is listening:</div><div><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">udp 0 0 <a href="http://0.0.0.0:514">0.0.0.0:514</a> 0.0.0.0:* root 2472217 57/syslog-ng</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Looks like I have to go back to iptables again.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:27 AM, Scheidler, Balázs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:balazs.scheidler@balabit.com" target="_blank">balazs.scheidler@balabit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">It can potentially misparse some if the fields but the intended operation if syslog-ng is that if it receives a message it will do its best to deliver one as well.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You should probably check firewall settings, that might be blocking packets, and also make sure syslog-ng is actually listening on port 514.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Jun 6, 2018 10:24, "Eric Benoit" <<a href="mailto:eric.r.benoit@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.r.benoit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi List,<div><br></div><div>I wanted to send a test message to my syslog-ng server.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried this:</div><div><br></div><div>> echo -n "test message" | nc -4u -w1 192.168.100.10 514<br></div><div><br></div><div>But I saw no logs created on the syslog-ng server.</div><div><br></div><div>I did see the udp package on wireshark.</div><div><br></div><div>Will syslog-ng except my test message the way I have it formatted and log it, does my message need to be formatted in a specific way for syslog-ng to except and create a log?</div><div><br></div><div>Also, should I change syslog-ng to TCP instead of UDP to better trouble shoot any network problems I might have pending my netcat test message looks ok for syslog-ng server to except and log?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not very good at articulating questions, so I hope what I wrote makes sense if it does not please let me know and I will spend some more time rephrasing my questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for any suggestions or comments</div></div>
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