Calazan.com » Linux http://www.calazan.com Share the Knowledge Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to send syslog messages to a remote syslog server in Fedora 9 http://www.calazan.com/how-to-send-syslog-messages-to-a-remote-syslog-server-in-fedora-core-9/ http://www.calazan.com/how-to-send-syslog-messages-to-a-remote-syslog-server-in-fedora-core-9/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:28:32 +0000 webmaster http://www.calazan.com/?p=154 I have a virtual machine set up running Fedora 9 on my home network which I mainly use for SSH tunneling and I just realized that this version of Fedora now uses rsyslog as its default syslog daemon.

I wanted to send a copy of the syslog messages for SSH to my central syslog server so I can easily keep track of login attempts to my server from the outside.

Here are the steps:

  1. Open /etc/rsyslog.conf and  add this line: 
    • authpriv.* @remote_server_ip_address
  2. Restart the rsyslog service: /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart

Change “authpriv.*” to “*.*” if you wish to send a copy of all the syslog messages to the remote server.

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