Ok, I guess I’m just too used to the Windows environment that I’m having a hard time adjusting to command line interfaces. Here’s the deal: I need to get syslog-ng running on my server. I think I have it installed, downloading the file from sunfreeware.com, putting the file in the /var/spool/pkg directory (file = syslogng-2.0.9-sol10-sparc-local.gz). I then used the pkgadd –d command to install it, which seemed to be fine. But where do I go from here? Has it started or do I need to manually start it? I’m also looking for a syslog-ng.conf file in order to modify it – I’m using this to push log data to another server, and according to the central logging program we are using, I need to modify this file like this:

options {
use_fqdn(yes);
log_fifo_size(8192);
};

source local {
file("/var/log/messages");
udp(ip(127.0.0.1) port(514));
internal();
};

filter notdebug {
level(info...emerg);
}

destination loghost {
tcp("name.of.yoursplunkserver" port (9514));
};

log {
source(local);
filter(notdebug);
destination(loghost);
};

Any advice/or guidance is greatly appreciated. I know the more I use these Unix boxes, the more I’ll learn…

Jamen McGranahan

Systems Services Librarian

Vanderbilt University

419 21st Avenue South

Nashville, TN 37240