How can a Sun Sparc Solaris 8, a Syslog server

[ase2dais]

It seems to me a very easy process, maybe some file that
needed to have a line rem: out to enable the services.
I need it to report router log messages>


Any takers is surely appreciated


ase2dais

 

[Annihilannic]

It should be set up by default. You'll see in /etc/services that syslogd listens on port 514. You can check whether it's actually listening by doing a netstat -an | grep "\.514 ".

If your router is set up with this server as a loghost then it should be working. Annihilannic.

 

[ase2dais]

annihilannic !

Sure enough! its there and its listening.

So once I have the router config setup, how to I see the log files. Should I cat the syslog.conf and see where the
logfile will be populated.

.. at the syslog.conf file I dont' quite understand how to read this entry...

<>
local7.debugging /var/log/cisco.log
<>

what is local7.debugging ? I have seen some that are local5.debugging. these number 5,7, what do they mean?

 

[Annihilannic]

local7.debugging is the 'priority' of the message. To test a message of this type use logger -p local7.debugging a test message and it should come up in the specified log. I presume you need to find out what priority your router will be logging the messages at, but if that entry was already in your syslog.conf then it's probably the correct one. Annihilannic.