Re: [syslog-ng]Using logger with syslog-ng

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:35:41PM -0800, Vaibhav Goel wrote:

Thanks for your prompt reply. It is as I suspected....I won't be able to use logger to test.

I am running RedHat Linux. Please note that syslogd and syslog-ng need to co-exist on the source as well as the loghost. I see in the FAQ that this is possible. Should I get syslog-ng to listen on the UDP port 514 meant for syslogd? Is there any quick way I can test this setup?

If you tell syslog-ng to listen to the UDP port, then you can write a Perl script using the Sys::Syslog module (which comes with Perl 5 and later) to do your testing. If you already know some Perl, that should be pretty quick.