Questions tagged [syslogd]
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Rsyslog forward logs cannot connect Permission Denied
Have configured Rsyslog to ship logs to a remote location through an SSH tunnel.
However rsyslog complains with "Permission denied":
rsyslogd[28412]: cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:10601: ...
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Getting logger to log to rsyslog in alpine
I installed rsyslog on my Alpine-based system to replace busybox syslogd. After completely disabling syslogd in openrc, enabling ryslog at boot and rebooting, all services correctly started logging to ...
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How to append host IP address and host MAC addres to every log message?
I have several log agents with iptables logging rules and default rsyslog config. Rsyslog sends the logs to the central server.
Iptables rule:
iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "INPUT:DROP:" --...
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rsyslogd vs auditd? Are they alternatives or complement each other?
I see that both auditd and rsyslogd services are running (on my OpenSuse Leap 15 box). A quick google didn't give a good answer.
Are these services doing the same job? i.e. Could i get rid of one of ...
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Log messages containing a specific string to another file in rsyslogd
I want to save my log messages generated by iptables to another file via rsyslogd.
Currently I use this code from /etc/rsyslog.d/20-custom.conf:
# Log cron to cron.log and not to syslog
*.*;cron,...
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MacOS - How to change syslogd's log level for a specific process/program?
I am new to MacOS and I would like to get a better of view of what's going on with a system process when my computer is starting up. I can see in the log that a process is changing settings, but the ...
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Redirecting messages from syslogd
I'm currently using a CentOS 6 cluster which is having some issues on one node that is triggering a syslogd message:
Message from syslogd@node005 at Sep 7 14:23:04 ...
kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received ...
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What is the purpose of a "-" prefix to the log file path in /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf and similar files?
Among others these lines appear in the file:
auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
#cron.* /var/log/cron.log
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rsyslogd: How to prevent logging in the /var/kern.log file and redirecting to another file?
I am trying to redirect iptables log to another file.
Based upon my reading on the net, I did the following:
In my iptables rule, I have rules like:
iptables -A INPUT -s ... -j LOG --log-prefix "...
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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 ...
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Millisecond precision in syslogd on OS X
When I log messages to syslog in OS X (10.10.1), it truncates the timestamp to the second. If I log to a file, for example, I am able to capture milliseconds. Milliseconds matter when logs are coming ...
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File monitoring using syslog
Can rsyslog, syslog-ng programs monitor change of file? I want to monitor files and receive the changes made to the file by syslog on server. Thank you.
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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 ...
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Syslogd: hardware error
The machine has been sending these messages to the terminal, paired with beeps from the speaker on the motherboard. These messages appear every 5 minutes, sometimes naming CPU2, sometimes CPU3.
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What does the - mean in this syslog configuration
news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
news.err /var/log/news/news.err
news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice
So the docs indicate:
The ...
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