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Questions tagged [syslogd]

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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, which normally hangs out on UDP 514. However, I'm…
Emmel
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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 logging PER app by.. Creating an alias to the…
mralexgray
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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 to do man supervising but found nothing.…
usr-local-ΕΨΗΕΛΩΝ
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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. # # For more information see…
Vinicius Braz Pinto
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Disabling syslogd in FreeBSD

I'm running FreeBSD in a very small VM with about 1.5G of space. I'd like to disable syslogd to save disk space, but there is no entry for it in /etc/rc.conf. service -e shows that syslogd is indeed running. How do I disable/uninstall it?
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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 == 'ispconfig' then /var/log/ispconfig.log #the file exists…
w0rldart
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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 value) and have added an entry to…
trojanfoe
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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 files Remotely access log files with wmi…
damir
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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 10.6 OS X box to send logs to a syslog server?
skarface
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asl.conf doesn't take an effect on my enviroment OS X Yosemite

I'm trying to stop certain application's annoying logging, with no success so far. What I did is those things explained like in this question: How to disable/ set logging level /preferences PER Mac OS X application? But in anyways, the modification…
Mumi
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Stop syslog messages from being sent to all open terminals

We have a hardware problem on one of our servers, and the kernel is continuously spitting out messages like this: kernel: EDAC MC0: UE row 0, channel-a= 0 channel-b= 1 labels "-": NON-FATAL recoverable (Branch=0 DRAM-Bank=0 Buffer ID = 0 RDWR=Read…
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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.
user6004
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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 output in /var/log/system.log (this wasn't causing…
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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] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Message from…
harp
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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) and I can see all of the logs in /var/log/syslog.…
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