syslog

The chances are, syslogd is already installed and running on your machine.

Have you tried sending the logs to your system and seeing what happens? (the logs usually write somewhere in /var/log.

If it doesn't work you may need to edit the syslog.conf to filter the messages accordingly.

Off-hand, I don't know of a GUI way of doing this, but it isn't hard in the terminal.

One little butt-biter with syslog is that syslogd can only write to an existing file, so if you configure it to write to it's own file, you have to create the file first. In terminal:

sudo touch /var/log/filename

Roger

James Wilson

I have my Airport Express configured to log to Syslog host, this only needs entering the Syslog host ip address, and the Log level and results in kernel messages in the MacOS System log which you can read with your Console app.

In my case quite easy:
In the airport express configuration:

send logging to ip adddress < 10.0.1.2 > (your computer ip)
log level < 7 dedbug > (drop down list selection)

Resulting typical /var/log/system.log entry:

Dec 14 12:25:36 mac02A kernel[0]: AirPort: Link DOWN (out-of-range 0)

Hopefully your VOIP device configuration is also simple.
You might have to change the log level to higher priority if nothing shows up.

PX.


G5PMac,G4iBook Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Correction to my previous post. (Unable to edit).

Re:

Resulting typical /var/log/system.log entry:
Dec 14 12:25:36 mac02A kernel[0]: AirPort: Link DOWN (out-of-range 0

That message originate from the MacOS internal logging, I am still trying to find where/what the external Airport Express Base station status monitor logging appears. Not as easy as I thought. Will advise.

PX.

G5PMac,G4iBook Mac OS X (10.4.2)

G5PMac,G4iBook Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Yes very useful reference, the syslogd.plist edit for permanent logging completes the story nicely.

See also Apple Tech Article ID: 107993

Link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107993

AirPort Extreme: Remotely logging base station activity with syslog.
It is a useful example covering other generally relevant points.
But just uses terminal shell command to open the syslog udp 514 logging port.

It worked for my Airport Express Base station logging via WIFI.

Points to note-

1. MacOSX Sharing firewall.

syslogd UDP port 514 must be open for these messages.
(If the firewall Advanced option UDP Blocking is enabled )

2. /etc/syslog.conf:

A separate log file is created, but local0.* is used by the MacOSX firewall and the Airport Express and probably other devices, so you get firewall and other logging in both the ipfw.log and the AirPort.log. (grep could help here).



G5PMac,G4iBook Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Useful tips? I sure could use some step-by-step examples! I'd like to have my Sipura SPA 3000 and my Grandstream GXP-2000 output log files...but nothing here has helped me to do that yet....?

various Mac OS X (10.3.9)