[syslog-ng]accept syslog from remote hosts ?

ip.guy syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:56:58 +1000


hi all

how does one allow remote syslog (not syslog-ng) servers currently 
logging to the syslog on the central log server (running vanilla syslog) 
access to dump syslog entires into syslog-ng when started ?

if i tail /var/log/messages when syslog-ng is running and syslog is 
stopped, i can see local messages but nothing from remote hosts which 
are setup to log to the host.

see below re my syslog-ng conf file.



options {
        long_hostnames(off);
        sync(0);
        stats(43200);
        dns_cache(yes);
        use_fqdn(no);
        keep_hostname(yes);
        use_dns(yes);
};

source shell {
        internal();
        unix-stream("/dev/log");
        tcp(ip(192.49.109.241) port(514) max-connections(300));
};
        destination localhost {
        file("/var/log/messages");
};

log {
        source(shell); destination(localhost);
};