I need to configure my syslog daemon to allow for remote hosts to connect. When I do a netstat -an it seems that I'm not listening on 514.

here is a copy of my sylog daemon, any help is appreciated.

# Options to syslogd
# -m 0 disables 'MARK' messages.
# -r enables logging from remote machines
# -x disables DNS lookups on messages recieved with -r
# See syslogd(8) for more details
SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0 -r"
# Options to klogd
# -2 prints all kernel oops messages twice; once for klogd to decode, and
# once for processing with 'ksymoops'
# -x disables all klogd processing of oops messages entirely
# See klogd(8) for more details
KLOGD_OPTIONS="-x"

Right ... did you actually read
?
In your problem description I can't see anything
about having checked /etc/services...

Or a -h flag ... for that matter:

Cheers,
Tink

I configured the /etc/services to start udp 514, but when I run netstat -an 514 is not in a listening state. I saw your message about -h option, but don't know if applicable here. Your thoughts are appreciated.

add -r, too :)

Cheers,
Tink

I appoligize for my lack of understanding, but I need to put the -r in the /etc/services as well? If so is it supposed to look like this?

biff 512/udp comsat
login 513/tcp
who 513/udp whod
shell 514/tcp cmd # no passwords used
syslog -r 514/udp
printer 515/tcp spooler # line printer spooler
printer 515/udp spooler # line printer spooler

I understand the need to study the literature, but I haven't seen anything that indicates this, only to put it in the syslogd file? So please bear with me. Thanks for your help!!

Actually the flags look ok. Maybe a stupid question but did you restart syslog after editing the init script?
Also some distros have an /etc/sysconfig/syslog file where option variables are defined for it, did you look at that?

Yeah I restarted syslog, and I do have that file location changed.