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# 1  
Old 01-14-2016
Which are the available entries to forward syslog in syslog.conf?
Hi Community

Which are the available entries to forward syslog in syslog.conf

i have put

Code:
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit;user.alert;user.emerg;kern.notice;auth.notice;kern.warning        @172.16.200.50

and it's not going through.giving error message like below:

Code:
syslogd: line 18: unknown priority name "warning        @172.16.200.50"
Jan 14 10:45:24 test.example.com syslogd: going down on signal 15
Jan 14 10:45:24 test.example.com syslogd: line 18: unknown priority name "notice        @172.16.200.50"

Last edited by Don Cragun; 01-14-2016 at 04:16 AM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 01-14-2016
According to the Solaris syslog.conf man page, you need tabs (not spaces) between the message classes and the destination for syslog messages of those classes. Furthermore, the examples and description talk about host names; not IP addresses.
# 3  
Old 01-18-2016
i have added below and getting successful logs

Code:
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit;kern.warning;auth.notice;kern.info     @172.16.200.50

Thanks & Regards,
Ben
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