On Wed, 20 May 2009, nate wrote: > hce wrote: > >> 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? The double @ is for using tcp/514 instead of udp/514, which is more reliable. But you need to configure it correctly on the server to make sure it accepts the traffic. The rsyslog.conf manpage has some info, the documentation in /usr/share/doc/rsyslog contains the details. Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]