[Wolves] rsyslog and remote servers

[Simon Burke]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Simon Burke <simonb at fatsportsman.eu> wrote:
> I know its probably me being intellectually challenged here, however
> Im trying to setup rsyslogd to log everything for remote hosts to a
> mysql DB.
>
> I have in my rsyslog.conf:
>
> $ModLoad ommysql.so
> # Provides UDP syslog reception
> $ModLoad imudp
> $UDPServerRun 514
>
>  Which as far as Im aware should let me simply do something akin to:
>
> :fromhost-ip, isequal, "192.168.1.1"     :ommysql:localhost,Syslog,user,password
>
> Which just doesnt work.
> nor does setting local stuff like the following work:
>
> mail.*
> :ommysql:localhost,Syslog,user,password
>
Ok, so I sorted it in the end. The issue wasnt really with the rsyslog
config, but rather the remote host not forwarding. It's always
something simple in the end.

Thanks,
Simon.