[CentOS] Send syslog to a remote server

Thu May 21 05:31:57 UTC 2009
nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>

hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running CentOS 5 and I tried to config flowing statement in
> syslog.conf to send syslog messages to a remote server running on FC
> 9, but it did not work. There was nothing send to the FC9.
>
> "*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                @@192.168.1.5"
>
> Could anyone advice whether the syslog in CentOS 5 does not support
> remote server, or I could be missing something?

Try just one @ instead of two?

Also is the FC9 system configured to receive messages? You can
use the 'logger' command to send custom messages with user
defined priority/facility for testing purposes as well.

nate