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How do you enable syslogd to accept incoming connections on Snow Leopard from remote loggers?
How do I get syslogd to accept incoming connections from remote hosts on Snow Leopard?
I'd like to centralize logging such that various devices and systems send logs to Snow Leopard's syslogd, ...
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OS X Sending syslog to a remote box
For some reason I have a hard time wrapping my head around how OS X handles things like init, cron, and "normal" daemon maint. Too many years spent doing *nix work.
How do I configure syslogd on a ...
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Configure a UNIX server to send its logs to a remote syslog server?
Is it possible?
If so, how is it done exactly? The syslog.conf file doesn't help too much.
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“Supervising” syslog-ng in htop
I was working at my server, when in htop I just noticed something unusual.
The syslog-ng process was listed as follows
supervising syslog-ng
/sbin/syslog-ng
I don't know what it means. I tried ...
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Putting a remote syslog into its own file
I have a Tomato router and it has the capability to have its logs go to a external server. syslog is the obvious choice for this. So I enabled remote logging on my linux server's syslogd (syslogd -r) ...
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External drive causes spotlight and indexing errors
I'm having issues with an external drive. My computer is a new Macbook Air running Lion. I had an external drive hooked up today, including a TM backup, to get some files. I'm seeing the following ...
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Capture and log to disk syslog remotely
I have a Windows XP machine. On this machine, I would like to view data sent by my Tomato router, which is running syslogd, which I can configure to send out syslog data instead of logging internally. ...
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How to capture the remote [ rsh/rcp ] login events and information using syslog.conf
I am exploring ways to capture the remote login events in my Linux server [ Oracle Linux 5x ].
Many users are connecting to the server using rcp and rsh protocols , I wish to capture the events [ such ...
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access windows log files from linux
I'm trying to remotely access windows log files from linux.
So far I've found two different approaches.
Install syslog server on windows machine and let windows send log files to linux, read those ...
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auth.log is empty (Ubuntu)
The /var/log/auth.log file in my Ubuntu 9.04 is empty. syslogd is running and /etc/syslog.conf content is as follows. Any help? Thanks.
# /etc/syslog.conf Configuration file for syslogd.
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# ...
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How to disable/ set logging level /preferences PER Mac OS X application?
I find my Mac's syslogd "Cosole" logs become unusable when some badly written app (PathFinder.app in this case) incessantly spews into syslogd all day long.. I read somewhere that you could disable ...
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Message from Syslogd
During a ssh session running a long rsync-job the system crashed and I received the following output in my shell:
Message from syslogd@x123 at Aug 21 13:42:05 ...
kernel:[1050642.629179] ...
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how to get logs in DD/MM/YYYY format and ipaddress format using rsyslog in ubuntu
Feb 4 10:32:57 master sshd[2070]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 4 10:32:59 master sshd[2070]: Received disconnect from 192.168.0.107: 11: disconnected by user
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Tag incoming syslog messages with source?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.7 server, with syslogd accepting remote syslogs on the standard UDP port. I just spent some time trying to debug a problem where I was getting messages in my log every 10 ...
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Mac ASL: Unable to see my application's log messages
I have just added ASL logging support to my application (a compiled binary) but I cannot see any log entries using Console.app. I am logging with facility 'com.mydomain.myapp' (that's not the actual ...
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Running a remote syslog server
I have a Mac dev machine configured to forward certain syslog entries to a remote syslog host. It's configured to forward them to my Ubuntu server. The Ubuntu server currently has rsyslog installed ...
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How can I run a command when a certain message is dumped to /var/log/messages?
I'm suffering under some bug that makes pulseaudio dump millions of messages in my syslog:
Oct 17 15:58:38 host pulseaudio[3757]: alsa-sink.c: Resume failed, couldn't restore original fragment ...
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Using syslog to monitor stopped services on Win2k
I am using a central syslog server to capture event logs from Windows machines.
I am specifically interested in monitoring Windows services. This works well under XP machines - each time a service ...
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Understading the output of syslogd -d
Ubuntu
What is the meanding of 80, F and X in the following output of syslogd -d?
0: X X X X FF X X X X X FF X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/log/auth.log (unused)
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Redirecting output from syslog to own log
I'm following this tutorial: Using Fail2ban To Block Wrong ISPConfig Logins, but rsyslog won't redirect the output from a file to another:
/etc/rsyslog.d/12-ispconfig.conf:
if $programname == ...
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syslog shell expansion
Is there an easy way to prevent the logging of commands run into syslog as post-shell expansion ?
I.e log a command of "ls *.log" as just that, rather than "ls a.log b.log c.log d.log" It makes ...
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syslog facilities
I have an application (in java) running in a Windows PC and I want to send logging messages to a syslog server running in a Linux box somewhere in the network.
The problem I have is, that it is not ...
