Re: [syslog-ng] rhost field

27 Dec 2005

      I still cant get it to work.
          this is the problem output again....it doesnt identify remote
source of log....
Dec 27 18:21:20 src@suselog syslog-ng[19442]: syslog-ng version 1.6.2 going
down
Dec 27 18:21:20 src@suselog syslog-ng[19532]: syslog-ng version 1.6.2
starting
Dec 27 18:21:25 src@suselog kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
Dec 27 18:21:36 suselog/suselog su(pam_unix)[25213]: authentication
failure; logname=syss555 uid=500 euid=0 tty=pts/10 ruser=syss555 rhost=
user=root
      --below are some config settings--

suselog:/etc/sysconfig # more syslog   I restart syslog via
      # The name of the syslog daemon used as
      # syslog service: "syslogd", "syslog-ng"
      #
      SYSLOG_DAEMON="syslog-ng"

suselog:/etc/syslog-ng # more syslog-ng.conf   note- I do edit this file
and do not use suseconfig......

      # /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
      #
      # Automatically generated by SuSEconfig on Thu Dec 15 19:31:03 EST
2005.
      #
      # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
      #
      # you can modify /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.in instead
      #
      #
      # File format description can be found in syslog-ng.conf(5).
      #

      options { keep_hostname(no); chain_hostnames(yes); use_dns(no);
sync(0); };

      #
      # 'src' is our main source definition. you can add
      # more sources driver definitions to it, or define
      # your own sources, i.e.:
      #
      #source my_src { .... };

      source lan_tcp { tcp(ip(127.0.0.1) port(1999) max-connections(10));
};
                source lan_udp { udp(); };

      source src {
        #
        # include internal syslog-ng messages
        # note: the internal() soure is required!
        #
        internal();

        #
        # the following line will be replaced by the
        # socket list generated by SuSEconfig using
        # variables from /etc/sysconfig/syslog:
        #
        unix-dgram("/dev/log");
        unix-dgram("/var/lib/ntp/dev/log");

        #
        # uncomment to process log messages from network:
        #
        #udp(ip("0.0.0.0") port(514));
      };

Is there a way to dump the current log settings? or obtain them on startup
of Syslog-NG?

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keep_hostname(no)
use_dns(no)

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:56 -0500, ken.schweiker@faa.gov wrote:
...
I am using syslog-ng for the first time. The initial setup is complete
and
...
appears to be working ok. However in my test environment, I am logging
from
a redhat desktop using syslog to a suse syslog-ng server. The output,
after
I deliberately input an incorrect password on my workstation doing a
'su',
gets reported to the syslog-ng server as .......
Dec 23 17:50:12 suselog/suselog su(pam_unix)[13205]: authentication
failure; logname=syss555 uid=500 euid=0 tty=pts/4 ruser=syss555 rhost=
user=root
How do I get it to display in the log the host(IP) the message came from?
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Bazsi

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Re: [syslog-ng] rhost field

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