How to configure a jail to send logs to minirsyslogd running in a separate jail?

[Dainis Berzins]

I have managed to configure a jail with the minirsyslogd package to collect logs from my FreeNAS server. (This thread and this manual page were great helps!) I would like to configure several other jails to be sending their logs to this same syslog server.

I tried amending the /etc/syslog.conf file to send to a specific host by adding the following line:

Code:

*.*           @192.168.1.54

where 192.168.1.54 is the ip address of the server running minirsyslogd, but I do not see any messages coming through.

I have tried pinging from each server. They can successfully ping eachother.

Should I be using syslog-ng instead?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[dlavigne]

Does it work if you input the jail's address into System -> General -> syslog server?

 

[Dainis Berzins]

Yes, that's what I did and that's why the FreeNAS server itself is sending log data. That's not the problem.

I have 4 other jails aside from my minirsyslogd jail. I want to gather log data from those jails. Questions is how to configure these jails to send their logs.

 

[jgreco]

You've done the obvious things, especially the ping test. I have no specific experience with minirsyslogd, but I would suggest that you see about ratcheting up the debug level and seeing if maybe it is doing something paranoid/stupid/jail-incompatible. For example, with standard BSD syslogd, it may start up in a mode that has it not listening on the syslogd IP socket. Usually these things become obvious when you're debugging. Also make sure your jails are ACTUALLY sending messages; UNIX logger(1) with the "-h host" flag from the jail is the way to happiness there, and tcpdump on the FreeNAS host itself to monitor for traffic.