[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng not logging anything from Solaris host

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 11:37 -0500, Shah, Maunir wrote:
> I’m running syslog-ng 1.6.11 on Solaris 10 zone, and so far I’m able
> to see logs being created locally but I’m not seeing any kind of
> logging from other Solaris host.  For my syslog-ng server I made sure
> that I’m using udp and for source its door.  I’ve two test servers
> running Solaris 8 and 10 that I’m testing from and have changed
> syslog.conf to reflect the changes and point all my logs to go to
> syslog-ng.  It’s not the firewall that is blocking it as we are able
> to telnet to port 514 and whatever you type in the cmd prompt it
> records it on the syslog-ng server.  I know I’m missing something in
> the config file but not sure what I’m doing wrong.

telnet uses tcp, whereas syslogd uses udp by default, so the traffic
might still be blocked by a firewall.


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Bazsi