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My syslog daemon does not log messages - what is wrong?

Created on 2001-01-03 by Rainer Gerhards.

Unfortunately, there is no general answer to this questions. However, we have learned that in the majority of cases on of the following issues is causing the problem:

  • Check the facility EventReporter is using when sending messages
    By default, EventReporter sends to the LOCAL_0 facility. This default can be changed with the EventReporter client. Be sure to set it matching to your syslog daemon's configuration.
  • configure your syslog daemon to allow remote message to be received
    Some syslog daemons require special configuration to allow logging from remote hosts. For example, the RedHat Linux system requires a "-r" option in order to receive the messages. The file to check in RedHat 6.2 would be /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog.
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