[SOLVED] Simple syslogd for Ubuntu 10.04?

littlebigman · 12-06-2010, 03:26 PM

Hello

I need a very simple SyslogD server for Ubuntu 10.04 so I can get data from a small embedded device I'm trying to get to work.

I tried to install syslog-ng, but it fails after start. It look like I need to edit its configuration file, but all I found through Google are complicated tutorials to install syslog-ng, MySQL, PHP, Apache, etc.

By any chance, does someone have a really simple tutorial on how to get a syslogd server installed in Ubuntu?

Thank you.

acid_kewpie · 12-06-2010, 03:46 PM

All normal linux distributions run a syslog server by default. That's probably why your attempts to run syslog-ng (which is ace btw.) Fail - there's already one running. No idea what it is ubuntu runs normally, but run ps -ef and you'll find it listed.

littlebigman · 12-07-2010, 02:03 PM

Thanks for the tip. It seems like there are several syslogd alternatives for Ubuntu, and I tried sysklogd which seems like the simplest... but can't get it to work:

Code:

# apt-get install sysklogd
# vi /etc/default/syslogd: Just edited the single line in the default file as SYSLOGD="-r"
# /etc/init.d/networking  restart
# netstat -na

... but no application listens on UDP 514.

Does someone know whether I should add something else to get sysklogd up and running?

Thank you.

markush · 12-07-2010, 04:11 PM

Hi littlebigman,

according to this http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/sysklogd8.html manual you'll have to use the -r option in order to get syslogd listening to the network. Your code does not show this.

Markus

littlebigman · 12-07-2010, 04:14 PM

Thanks Markus.

For those looking for the same thing: Contrary to what I read in some docs, it's not /etc/init.d/networking that must be used but (logically) /etc/init.d/sysklogd.

Sysklogd comes with default settings in /etc/syslog.conf which are good enough to get started. If you want to allow remote hosts to log data through the network, just edit /etc/default/syslogd.

Code:

# dpkg -L sysklogd
# vi /etc/default/syslogd
# /etc/init.d/sysklogd start
# netstat -na
# tail -f /var/log/syslog

HTH,