Probably silly Q

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:37, Roger Heflin wrote:
>> > Ok, I've inserted that line in services thats needed for
>>
>> that to work,
>>
>> > syslog          514/udp
>> >
>> > And added the -r option to OPTIONS in the syslog file in
>> > /etc/sysconfig, SIGHUPed syslogd, and turned the routers
>>
>> forwarding of
>>
>> > the access log to the main 192.168.x.x address of that
>>
>> machine.  But
>>
>> > nothing is appearing in either all.log or any other log
>>
>> with a recent timestamp.
>>
>> > Did I miss something?  Or is the linksys BEFSR41 routers logging
>> > to some other unk (udp/tcp) port besides 514?
>>
>> ----
>> Let's keep this on list OK?
>>
>> Firewall on Linux system blocking port 514 protocol UDP?
>>
>> Logging will go into /var/log/messages unless you redirect it
>> via syslog.conf # man syslog.conf
>
>Linksys sends snmptraps to the snmptrap port (161)
>(man snmptrapd) this is a standard service that will listen to this
>port and do whatever is configured with the data (save it to syslog,
>or to elsewhere, and/or even execute scripts to process the incomming
>data), it can be  checkconfig'ed on and will put the messages
>into whatever is configured by snmptrapd.
>
>I have been using it for years on both Windows and Linux.  snmptraps
>are os independent, where as syslog in typically unix only.
>
>You can also set the ip address to send it to, to be .255 and it
>will nicely broadcast on your local subnet.
>
That was the default, but I changed it to point at the firewall box 
itself, if thats the case I should put it back to the default??

>                             Roger

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