On 02/08/14 15:24, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 13:05 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> >> syslog-nagios-bridge needs to listen on a TCP port for connections from >> rsyslogd or whatever >> >> >> To make it easy for users (fully automated installation), I can >> >> a) configure the package to listen on some port (I use 30514) >> >> b) deploy a file /etc/rsyslog.d/nagios-bridge.conf with the config for >> the same port >> >> Doing this, the service starts working as soon as the package is installed. >> >> Do people feel it is a good idea for packages to grab non-standard ports >> like this? > > Not really, no. Isn't there a standard port for this? (Annoyingly > 514/tcp is assigned to a completely different protocol.) >
The syslog daemon itself usually listens on 514 It then relays a copy of every message to syslog-nagios-bridge on localhost:30514 or whatever using the same Syslog protocol. syslog-nagios-bridge shouldn't run on 514. Although it can receive Syslog packets, it doesn't store them to file or database or any other normal Syslog features. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53dce848.1080...@pocock.pro
