Questions tagged [syslogd]
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Logging rssh/chroot SFTP users
I'm trying to log activity (uploads, downloads, renames, deletes) for SFTP users.
If I SFTP with a normal user, it logs to /var/log/secure.
If I SFTP with a rssh user, it logs that they connected, but ...
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Syslog cannot start
I run rsyslog on Ubuntu server.
after rsyslog starts, it restarts in a loop.
here is a piece of /var/log/syslog:
Aug 13 16:05:50 ip-10-92-237-215 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103
Aug 13 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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