Time Capsule remote syslog configuration

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Time Capsule remote syslog configuration

I am trying to configure my time capsule to write its syslog to my imac. I am running Snow Leopard and the time capsule is at the latest patch 7.4.2. I have gone into the airport utility and set the syslog destination address to 192.168.0.44, syslog level 6. Allow SNMP and allow SNMP over Wan are both unchecked. I made the change and restarted the TC. On the target machine I editted /etc/syslog.conf, adding:

local0.* /var/log/AirPort.log

rebooted the imac and nothing. I am not seeing the log written on the 192.168.0.44 machine, the TC is 192.168.0.1

I have searched the internet, man pages, etc and have found nothing that sheds light on this issue. What am I missing?

Intel iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 1TB time machine (7.4.2), 3GS 32GB, MacBook, Airbook, Ipod Touch

Posted on Sep 29, 2009 5:49 AM

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Answer 1

yugbre

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Sep 29, 2009 8:47 AM in response to Greg Johnston

I have not tried this on SL, but this is what I needed to do on Leopard.
Edit /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist

uncomment the block below


<key>NetworkListener</key>
<dict>
<key>SockServiceName</key>
<string>syslog</string>
<key>SockType</key>
<string>dgram</string>
</dict>
</dict>

-------------------------------
then

sudo syslogd -m 0 -u

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Answer 2

Sep 29, 2009 5:14 PM in response to yugbre

Thx

Uncommenting worked. I had to reboot to make it work. Additionally, I had to edit /etc/syslog.conf adding

local0.* /var/log/AirPort.log

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