I have a router that is willing to send log information to a syslog server. Did a google search for “opensuse syslog server” but no results came back. Would have thought that Opensuse Linux would have provided such. But since that seems not to be the case, can anyone recommend such for opensuse Linux?
You need to tell us what version of opensuse you are using.
I am running opensuse 12.2. I made a couple of changes to "/etc/syslog.d/remote.conf
--- remote.conf 2012/08/24 05:27:47 1.1
+++ remote.conf 2012/09/06 03:35:07
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@
#$InputTCPServerRun <port> # Starts a TCP server on selected port
# UDP Syslog Server:
-#$ModLoad imudp.so # provides UDP syslog reception
+$ModLoad imudp.so # provides UDP syslog reception
##$UDPServerAddress 10.10.0.1 # force to listen on this IP only,
## # needs SYSLOG_REQUIRES_NETWORK=yes.
-#$UDPServerRun 514 # start a UDP syslog server at standard port 514
+$UDPServerRun 514 # start a UDP syslog server at standard port 514
########### Encrypting Syslog Traffic with TLS ##########
If you are not familiar with patch format (or unified diff format), the above lines are all indented by one space. Lines beginning ‘-’ are the old version, and lines beginning ‘+’ are the new version.
So, basically, I removed the “#” from two lines, to uncomment them.
It should start working after the next reboot. Your router will probably be using log local, which is logged to “/var/log/localmessages”.
On 11/03/2012 03:16 AM, svetter88 wrote:
> Did a google search for “opensuse syslog server”
is plenty to find about syslog servers and openSUSE, but not by using
the search string you tried…
the below search example uses google’s “site specifier” switch and
groups syslog server as a phrase…
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aopensuse.org+“syslog+server”
–
dd