Questions tagged [syslogd]
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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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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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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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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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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.
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# ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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