Thanks for all the help everyone has emailed me with so far, although I got my
answer from Sun I really appriciate all the help everyone suggested I try.
Original Question (Condensed Version - Original message follows):
I am having trouble with syslog logging to a remote host. All the
configuration files are setup with no problem. I get no errors when trying to
perform this operation, the message just does not show up anywhere.
The Answer:
It has nothing to do with the remote host at all. The problem arrises when
there are more then 20 facilities / 20 open log files. Syslog starts at the
top of the file (/etc/syslog.conf) and reads down. After processing 20 lines
(excluding comments and newlines) it stops, and silently exits, skipping the
remaining lines.
This information can be found in: Bug Reports article 1139854 on the sunsolve
web site.
I had the faclities I was trying to log at the bottom of the file, to test
this I moved the facility to the top of the the file kill -HUP'ed syslogd and
tryed to send info the the remote host, it worked!
There is also a patch to fix this problem: 103738 I have tested this patch
and it does solve the problem. (The patch is for 2.5.1)
Thanks again for everyones help,
--Jason E. Murray
Original Message Follows:
We are having a problem with syslog logging to a remote @loghost. I believe I
have everything setup correctally, as most machines will log to the remote
@loghost without a problem.
There are a couple of our machines that will not however. The syslog.conf file
is setup to log:
local5.debug @loghost
I am testing this with the the /bin/logger binary:
/bin/logger -p local5.info -t TEST Syslog test
It is not working, I have checked all over the machine that I am running this
from and it is not getting logged anywhere on the local or the remote machine.
Both machines are 2.5.1. They are on the same network. Yes, there is a tab
between the local5.debug and the @loghost.
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Jason E. Murray EMAIL: jemurray@concentric.net
UNIX System Administrator http://www.concentric.net/~jem
Concentric Network Corporation
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