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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2005-07-05 10:36:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2005-07-05 10:36:52 +0000 |
| commit | 29976dd902982188dec55bbfa2281bce7ea1151c (patch) | |
| tree | f285c3d9910942c91ed3851036eeca87546be5fd /rsyslogd.8 | |
| parent | 46dc7803fffd06178b07d907e5a44042abeee504 (diff) | |
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hopefully this is 0.9.2, with tcp listener and full man pages...
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -.\" Copyright 2004 Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon for the rsyslog modifications +.\" Copyright 2004-2005 Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon for the rsyslog modifications .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License .\" -.TH RSYSLOGD 8 "18 March 2005" "Version 0.8" "Linux System Administration" +.TH RSYSLOGD 8 "05 July 2005" "Version 0.9.2" "Linux System Administration" .SH NAME rsyslogd \- reliable and extended syslogd .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ rsyslogd \- reliable and extended syslogd .RB [ " \-s " .I domainlist ] +.br +.RB [ " \-t " +.I port +] .RB [ " \-v " ] .LP .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -35,7 +39,7 @@ rsyslogd \- reliable and extended syslogd is a system utility providing support for message logging. Support of both internet and unix domain sockets enables this utility to support both local -and remote logging. +and remote logging (via UDP and TCP). .BR Rsyslogd (8) is derived from the sysklogd package which in turn is derived from the @@ -159,6 +163,11 @@ is specified and the host logging resolves to satu.infodrom.north.de no domain would be cut, you will have to specify two domains like: .BR "\-s north.de:infodrom.north.de" . .TP +.BI "\-t " "port" +Activates the syslog/tcp listener service. The listener will listen to +the specified port. Please note that syslog/tcp is not standardized, +but the implementation in rsyslogd follows common practice and is +compatible with e.G. Cisco PIX, syslog-ng and MonitorWare (Windows). .B "\-v" Print version and exit. .LP @@ -209,11 +218,15 @@ Network support means that messages can be forwarded from one node running rsyslogd to another node running rsyslogd where they will be actually logged to a disk file. -To enable this you have to specify the +To enable this you have to specify either the .B "\-r" +or +.B "\-t" option on the command line. The default behavior is that .B rsyslogd -won't listen to the network. +won't listen to the network. You can also combine these two +options if you want rsyslogd to listen to bost TCP and UDP +messages. The strategy is to have rsyslogd listen on a unix domain socket for locally generated log messages. This behavior will allow rsyslogd to |