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I am having a D-Link DFL-500 hardware firewall. I have an option like to log all the activities to a syslog server in it. So I want to setup a syslog server in Fedora Core 2 and to log all the activities of the firewall.
Ok, the only thing you have to do is restart syslogd with the '-r' command line switch. You will need to edit syslog's startup script (in /etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d) to make this permanent. Now syslogd will be listening on UDP port 514.
I had setup my D-Link to log to my syslog server.
It is sending messages, but all the messages goes into /var/log/messages. The following is one of a log made by D-Link.
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Dec 28 11:33:40 192.168.100.5 type=mgmt, msg="Log&Report setting set successful at 192.168.100.1 by admin"
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Is it possible to make the logging to some other file such as to log all the log comming from D-Link to /var/log/dlink.
I am sorry, but I don't think you can with syslogd, but I may be wrong. There doesn't seem to be a facility for seperating messages from your dlink. Have a good look at man 5 syslog.conf to be sure...
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