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Cisco and Syslogd
By klard | July 17, 2006
Just a quick note in regard to logging from a Cisco PIX to Redhat and OpenBSD.
To get syslog in Redhat to accept external logging events you have to run syslogd -r
To get syslog in OpenBSD to accept external logging events you have to run syslogd -u
Seems kind of odd at first considering if you start syslog without these options and run netstat, it shows the port is open but according to the man page (specifically in OpenBSD) syslogd does not accept external logs unless you run it with the -u switch. Without doing any reasearch I am going to assume it is a security feature. Take that for what it is worth.