[NETGEAR FVS318] security logs won't mail out.

[Bill McCormick]

Harry Putnam wrote:

>Sorry to come here with this but if any of you have had dealings with
>netgear support staff, you'll know that going there is very time
>consuming and often unproductive.
>
>I've been using the FVS318 router for over a year.  I've tried many
>many things regarding getting the security logs to be mailed to me on
>a regular basis.  What is so maddening is that if I choose the `mail
>now' choice it works ok. But you'd have to logon to the router at
>whatever intervals to do that..
>
>That tells me it isn't a problem with mail host, addressing or some
>other aspect of mail itself.
>
>I've tried weekly, daily, hourly with every setting I could think of.
>Different address, different smtp hosts, including my desktop which is
>set to receive mail from my network and does so with no problems.
>It receives them fine when I press the `mail now' choice.
>
>As a side note and related problem... I am able to get the logs to be
>sent to my desktop syslogd and they show up in my /var/log/messages.
>
>However they are in a different format than when viewed on the
>device. Some important info is missing like if the thing was dropped
>or what.  What kind of attack or whatever the device sees it as.
>Maybe other stuff.
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