From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Problems with syslogd on SVR4 (DELL Issue 2.2)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:30:10 GMT
Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL

Does anyone have full syslogd capability working on DELL SVR4?

I haven't been able to get it to receive from the IP network, although local
requests to make it into the syslog stream.  The interesting thing is that
it doesn't appear to be listening on the port -- if I do a "netstat -a",
ther is no listener on the UDP connection point.

An example:

Active Internet connections (including servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
tcp        0      0  ddsw1.mcs.com.telnet   pc1.mcs.com.14906      ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0  ddsw1.mcs.com.listen   *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.chargen              *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.daytime              *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.discard              *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.echo                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.time                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.nntp                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.uucp                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.exec                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.login                *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.shell                *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.telnet               *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.ftp                  *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.auth                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.1034                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.1032                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.1033                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.1031                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.1030                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.1029                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.1028                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.1027                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.smtp                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.*                    *.*                    CLOSED
tcp        0      0  *.sunrpc               *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.printer              *.*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0  *.domain               *.*                    LISTEN
udp        0      0  *.chargen              *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.daytime              *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.discard              *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.echo                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.time                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.bootps               *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.tftp                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.ntalk                *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.talk                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.biff                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.name                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1023                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1037                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1036                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1035                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1034                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1033                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1032                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.nfsd                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.177                  *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1031                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1030                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.1029                 *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.*                    *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.sunrpc               *.*                   
udp        0      0  ddsw1.mcs.com.domain   *.*                   
udp        0      0  localhost.domain       *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.domain               *.*                   
udp        0      0  *.route                *.*                   

Note that "syslog" isn't there, even though in /etc/services we find:

syslog		514/udp

Which indicates that it SHOULD be listening on port 514.  Its definately
running (and there is an /etc/syslog.conf file):

    root    84     1  0   Nov 14 ?        0:01 /usr/sbin/syslogd 
 
So what's the deal?  Ideas?  What am I missing?  I need to be able to 
receive syslog messages from another device on the network and log them 
properly.

I sent in a request to Dell's technical support service, but haven't heard
anything back as of yet.

Thanks in advance.

--
Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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