USRobotics NETServer/16 manual Appendix E Syslog Accounting, Using Syslog, Syslog Accounting E-1

Appendix E

Syslog Accounting

This appendix includes information on UNIX syslog network accounting and samples of system messages.

Important: You must have the NETServer entered in the \etc\hosts file of the UNIX server that is running Syslog. With- out this, you will be unable to use Syslog network accounting with the NETServer.

Using Syslog

To log connections and disconnections via syslog to the auth facility at priority info (auth.info), on your NETServer set loghost to the IP address or hostname of a UNIX host running syslogd. On that host edit /etc/syslog.conf as root and add the following line:

auth.info /var/log/authlog

Then run the following commands as root (note that the ‘ is a backtick):

touch /var/log/authlog chmod 700 /var/log/authlog kill -HUP ‘cat /etc/syslog.pid‘

Note that you don’t have to log to a separate file, but it can be convenient.

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