Hello,

I am using Ubuntu Linux and having problems in setting up remote syslogging. Appreciate your help on this.

On the server unix host, I have made following changes.

uncommented following lines in /etc/rsyslog.conf
$ModLoad imudp
$UDPServerRun 514

Now i am trying to run rsyslog in foreground using command line and getting following errros.

/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c2 -dn -r > a.log
rsyslogd: WARNING: rsyslogd is running in compatibility mode. Automatically generated config directives may interfer
with your rsyslog.conf settings. We suggest upgrading your config and adding -c4 as the first rsyslogd option.
rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: ModLoad imudp
rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: UDPServerRun (null)
rsyslogd: Name or service not known
rsyslogd: UDP message reception disabled due to error logged in last message.

rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: ModLoad immark
rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: MarkMessagePeriod 1200
rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: ModLoad imuxsock

I am able to solve this issue. Before i was just using option "-r", i changed it to "-r514".

contents of /etc/default/rsyslog file
RSYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-c2 -r514"

Now it is working fine.

Nov 16 11:51:35 cdegivm1 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
Nov 16 11:51:35 cdegivm1 rsyslogd: WARNING: rsyslogd is running in compatibility mode. Automatically generated config directives may interfer with your rsyslog.conf settings. We suggest upgrading your config and adding -c4 as the first rsyslogd option.
Nov 16 11:51:35 cdegivm1 rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: ModLoad imudp
Nov 16 11:51:35 cdegivm1 rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: UDPServerRun 514
Nov 16 11:51:35 cdegivm1 rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: ModLoad immark
Nov 16 11:51:35 cdegivm1 rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: MarkMessagePeriod 1200
Nov 16 11:51:35 cdegivm1 rsyslogd: Warning: backward compatibility layer added to following directive to rsyslog.conf: ModLoad imuxsock
Nov 16 11:52:39 cdegivm2 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="10209" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start