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Daniel C. Sobral
Asked: 2011-04-08 17:23:57 +0800 CST

How does one enable remote listening with rsyslog?

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I'm configuring a Debian Squeeze server to receive syslog from some appliances, but rsyslog is refusing to listen to UDP 514.

The closest I have been able to get from it is to make it listen to TCP 514 with -c2 -r -t514. I haven't found any combination of parameters that got it listening on UDP.

Squeeze's rsyslog version is 4.6.4-2.

debian syslog rsyslog

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  1. Best Answer

    In your /etc/rsyslog.conf:

    $ModLoad imudp.so
$UDPServerRun 514

    Then in your rsyslogd start options (/etc/sysconfig/rsyslog on RHEL-based distros, not sure where it resides in Debian-based ones), you need to add -r514 to SYSLOGD_OPTIONS.

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