Re: Syslog issues...

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I was wondering how I setup authentication of another device, say a router,
to
> log to syslog.   The router has the ability to forward events to a specific
ip
> address however I could find nothing regarding a syslog.auth.  The man pages
> for syslog.conf show only how to forward the syslog messages out to another
> machine but not authenticate messages in....  Is there something simple I am
> overlooking here?
>
What type of router is this?  Cisco routers support syslog directly.

logging 192.168.1.9

Causes it to send it's log messages to 192.168.1.9

Then an entry on 192.168.1.9 like:

local7.*                                                /var/log/routers

should cause messages to be written to the log file.  At least according to the
Cisco documentation.  I haven't personally used this feature.