[rsyslog] [basic] No remote logs getting thru

[Kenneth Marshall]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:33:05PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > Thanks for your patience Rainer... ok I get it now.  But see comment
> > at the end.
> 
> After saying that about something at the end.... I forgot to include
> it.
> 
> I was just wondering why the example config that comes with the
> rsyslog distro leaves out such important stuff as what it takes to get
> the server listening for log messages.
> 
> It has a commented section that claims to be about:
>  `Receiving Messages from Remote Hosts'
> 
>   # ######### Receiving Messages from Remote Hosts ########## 
>   # TCP Syslog Server:
>   # provides TCP syslog reception and GSS-API (if compiled to support it)
>   #$ModLoad imtcp.so  # load module
>   # Note: as of now, you need to use the -t command line option to
>   # enable TCP reception (e.g. -t514 to run a server at port 514/tcp)
>   # This will change in later v3 releases.
>   
>   # UDP Syslog Server:
>   #$ModLoad imudp.so  # provides UDP syslog reception
>   #$UDPServerRun 514 # start a UDP syslog server at standard port 514
> 
> But it doesn't bother to include the things that make tcp work, like
> the all important lines posted by Aaron N.
> 
>   $InputTCPMaxSessions 1000 # Maximum TCP sessions (default 200)
>   $InputTCPServerRun 514 # start up TCP listener at port 514
> 
> Again thank you both for your input and for website too Rainer.
> 

Maybe the sample configuration files are for an earlier release of
rsyslog.

Cheers,
Ken