Re: Logging Connections

Update: I'm now seeing *some* of the connections being logged, but not all. Who is the likely culprit who drops? haproxy or syslog?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Matthew Pettis <matthew.pettis#gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Ok, Scott was right, and syslog wasn't taking messages from the network. I
> reconfigured it to do so. Now I see that I got a startup message in my log,
> but I am not seeing any of the individual requests coming through. As
> stated previously, I set the logging level to debug, so I expected to see
> more... Any suggestions?
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Pettis <matthew.pettis#gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> OK, I wrote too soon... I also see this further down in the man page, and
>> I think this should be it:
>>
>> -r This option will enable the facility to receive message from the
>> network using an internet domain socket with the syslog service (see
>> services(5)). The default is to not receive any mes-
>> sages from the network.
>>
>> I'm going to try that... If you have other advice, please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Matthew Pettis <matthew.pettis#gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Scott,
>>>
>>> Thanks... I see that I am runnin syslogd like:
>>>
>>> syslog 3230 1 0 03:44 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/syslogd -u syslog
>>>
>>> reading the man page on syslogd, I see the -a option that specifies
>>> additional sockets it can be configured to listen on. Can you (or someone)
>>> tell me if this is the correct parameter to set, and what I should set it to
>>> to make it listen for log messages from the network?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Scott Smith <scott#kontera.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Matthew Pettis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Make sure your syslogd is running with the proper options. You probably
>>>> don't have it configured to accept log messages from the network.
>>>>
>>>> -scott
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are
>>> broken that we come to repair the world.
>>> -- Murray Waas
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are broken
>> that we come to repair the world.
>> -- Murray Waas
>>
>
>
>
> --
> It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are broken
> that we come to repair the world.
> -- Murray Waas
>

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that we come to repair the world.
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