FreeNAS as Loghost

[balanga]

I want to use my FreeNAS box as a loghost, ie a central repository for holding syslog msgs from my LAN. Can I pkg install syslog-ng to enable such a facility?

 

[sretalla]

In a jail, absolutely.

 

[balanga]

Any chance of sharing the /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf - I can't figure out what needs changing.... Is it this?

Code:

#
# uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost
# *.*<-><------><------><------><------><------><------>@loghost
#
#log { source(src); destination(loghost); };

Or is that the bit that is used by all the clients?

 

[sretalla]

I don't use my FreeNAS box as a syslog host, but I do use another FreeBAS box. Here's the config from that which will probably work (change the IP to be the one you want to listen on... the IP of tha jail usually, remove the 127.0.0.1 if you don't want to log anything from the jail itself)

Code:

@version:3.14
destination _DEFAULT { file("/var/syslog-ng/default.log"); };
log { source(_DEFAULT); destination(_DEFAULT); };
source _DEFAULT { internal(); syslog(transport(udp) port(5140) ip(192.168.1.1) ip(127.0.0.1)); };