Sunday, September 18, 2011

Syslog to MySql on openSUSE

I have been experimenting with openSUSE lately as I am not impressed with the direction Mandriva Linux is going. Mandriva has been my main distribution since early versions of Mandrake back around 1998.

I followed the steps in my earlier post but I had to fiddle with a few more things to get it running on openSUSE.

In /etc/rsyslog.conf I added:

$ModLoad imudp         # load udp server
$UDPServerRun 514      # start udp server

the UDP server was not running by default so I added it and poked a hole in the firewall so that I could log the router messages to the database.