According to my Solaris experience, by default the syslog service does accept messages from external devices. What Solaris version are you using? On your Cisco router, you need to point the logging server to the Sun machine. You'd better also define the messages you want to be logged to a special "facility/level". For example, set facility = local1. In this case, you don't mix your Cisco device's messages with other machines'. On the Sun workstation side, modify the /etc/syslog.conf file to save all "local1" messages to a specific file. For example, add the following line to /etc/syslog.conf to log all "local1" messages to file "/var/log/Cisco": local1.debug /var/log/Cisco Two important things here: 1. The space between "local1.debug" and "/var/log/Cisco" in the /etc/syslog.conf file must be a "tab", not just a "space" key. 2. Remember to restart your syslogd on the Sun machine after the change. Hope this could help. Jerry On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, W. Alan Robertson wrote: > I've seen a million people ask about syslog for windows, but nobody has > mentioned syslogd on Unix. > > I'm trying to find information on getting syslog on a Solaris platform to accept > logging messages from Cisco routers. By default, the syslog service does not > accept messages from external devices. I've found about 6 million links on how > to get this working on Linux, but the Solaris version and the Linux version are > different enough that those links have not been helpful. > > Anyone have a quick and dirty howto? > > (And please, no recommendations to install a linux host, or a windows host... > That's not an option.) > > Thanks in advance, > > Alan > > _________________________________ > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
