Set Syslogd to run with -r switch at boot?

sirpimpsalot · 09-22-2004, 01:57 PM

syslogd is starting automatically on my box at boot.

how can I instruct it to run with the -r switch so it will accept incoming syslog messages? Im typically use chkconfig or suse runlevel editor, but cant firgure out a way to at the argument...

any help would be greatly appreciated - this has got to be something simple...

druuna · 09-22-2004, 02:32 PM

Hi,

syslog is the file you can edit, should recide in /etc/sysconfig.

SYSLOGD_PARAMS needs to be set here, don't know if the following example is (still) in that file, so here it is:

# SYSLOGD_PARAMS="-r -s my.dom.ain"

Hope this helps.

sirpimpsalot · 09-23-2004, 05:12 PM

awesome... that makes sense now, and I think Ive got it up and running.

Can anyone instruct me on how to test the syslog server from another device? by default log entries go to /var/log/messages file, correct? that seems to be what the syslog.conf file indicates.

thank you!

druuna · 09-24-2004, 01:10 AM

You can use logger to test various levels of logging (man logger).

Your /etc/syslogd.conf tells which error is written to which file. SuSe uses /var/log/messages to collect all the messgaes, but there are other files.

hope this helps.