I have two machines running FreeBSD, bsdclient and bsdserver. I am trying to setup remote logging such that bsdclient sends all the logs to bsdserver. My syslog.conf on bsdclient goes like this
*.* @bsdserver.domain.com
On bsdserver, the syslog.conf is configured as:
+bsdclient.domain.com
*.* /var/log/bsdclient.log
syslogd in bsdserver was started in rc.conf as:
syslogd_enable="YES"
syslogd_flags="-a bsdclient.domain.com"
To test, on bsdclient i did
logger -p auth.info "user authenticated"
I can see entry in the /var/log/auth.log on bsdclient, however there is nothing in the /var/log/bsdclient.log on bsdserver. I am trying to send all type of logs to bsdserver. Did i make any mistake?? Thanks in advance
Best Answer
is bsdclient.domain.com and bsdserver.domain.com global DNS aware ? If not have you tried putting in an IP instead of DNS names.
Please following this excellent handbook section from freebsd handbook