Looking for some way of getting my routers syslog output to go to my unraid server.

 

Is there a syslog plugin or similar so i can gather my routers syslog output?

 

Thanks

 

Would love this too.

 

 

 

usage: syslogd [-drvh] [-l hostlist] [-m markinterval] [-n] [-p path]
[-s domainlist] [-f conffile]

    -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 messages from the network.

 

I think you just need to restart syslogd with the -r option to allow capture of the messages on the network.

Then direct your router's syslog events to unRAID.

I used to do this a while back.

 

You may need to configure unRAID with a static IP either by router's DHCP table or in unRAID itself.

 

look at /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog.

 

a sed script could probably be devised to edit the syslogd line and append the -r

 

here's my quick example and screen captures.

 

root@unRAID:~# sed -i.bak -e 's#/usr/sbin/syslogd -m0#/usr/sbin/syslogd -m0 -r#g' /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog
root@unRAID:~# diff /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog.bak
root@unRAID:~# diff -u /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog.bak
--- /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog 2013-12-19 10:04:34.906850060 -0500
+++ /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog.bak     2013-08-28 13:46:33.000000000 -0400
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
syslogd_start() {
   if [ -x /usr/sbin/syslogd -a -x /usr/sbin/klogd ]; then
     echo -n "Starting sysklogd daemons:  "
-    echo -n "/usr/sbin/syslogd -m0 -r "
-    /usr/sbin/syslogd -m0 -r
+    echo -n "/usr/sbin/syslogd -m0 "
+    /usr/sbin/syslogd -m0
     # prevent syslogd/klogd race condition on SMP kernels
     if ps acx | grep -q udevd ; then
       while [ ! -e /dev/log ] ; do
root@unRAID:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog restart
Starting sysklogd daemons:  /usr/sbin/syslogd -m0 -r /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x
root@unRAID:~# ps -ef | grep syslogd
root     11962     1  0 10:05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd -m0 -r
root     11968 11943  0 10:05 pts/0    00:00:00 grep syslogd

 

There will be issues to consider, such as space requirements for a growing log.

I'll leave these up to the end user. 

 

FWIW, you can expand the /var/log directory's footprint in ram on the fly.

 

root@unRAID:~# df | grep var/log
tmpfs                   131072      1564    129508   2% /var/log

root@unRAID:~# mount -o remount,size=256M tmpfs /var/log

root@unRAID:~# df | grep var/log                        
tmpfs                   262144      1564    260580   1% /var/log

root@unRAID:~# mount -o remount,size=128M tmpfs /var/log

root@unRAID:~# df | grep var/log                        
tmpfs                   131072      1564    129508   2% /var/log
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