Configuring centralised syslog services

Introduction

This page describes how Alexis Huxley installed and configured centralised syslog services.

Procedure

  1. If the syslog server is rsyslog then:
    1. Edit /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf and comment out the last four lines; without this rsyslogd will complain: 
      Could not open output pipe '/dev/xconsole':: No such file or directory
    2. Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and:
      1. uncomment the two lines containing the string ‘imudp’
      2. comment out the line ‘$KLogPermitNonKernelFacility on’; without this rsyslogd will complain: 
        command 'KLogPermitNonKernelFacility' is currently not permitted - did you already set it via a RainerScript command
    3. Restart rsyslog.

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