Getting syslog-ng to listen to the network

Type: Howto, Application-Specific (syslog-ng)

Tested Versions: 9.x

Written By: Rbos

Further Modifications By: Kamatsu

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To get syslog-ng to listen to the network, edit /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.in and uncomment the line

#udp(ip("0.0.0.0") port(514));

by removing the # mark. Then save and run

$ SuSEconfig --module syslog-ng

SuSEconfig will reload the new configuration