Two RH6.0 machines seem to have no remote syslog after upgrading to sysklogd-1.3.31-11.i386.rpm. Downgrading to sysklogd-1.3.31-6.i386.rpm fixes remote reception. I upgraded because I'm having problems with syslog/klog (1.3.31-6) getting in a bad state while remotely logging a sonicwall firewall. This "bad state" causes login to hang, apparently waiting on klogd. If I (re)start klogd (sometimes it's already dead), the login proceeds. This machine is also logging 4 jetdirect boxes. During this bad state, all logging stops. The other RH6.0 machine is logging only one jetdirect box and hasn't shown this problem. I enable remote reception by adding the "-r" switch to the command line in /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog. # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting system logger: " # we don't want the MARK ticks daemon syslogd -r -m 0 echo echo -n "Starting kernel logger: " daemon klogd echo touch /var/lock/subsys/syslog ;;
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5462 ***