newbie - Remote logging - Help

[menonrr at jmu.edu]

Hello,

I need to log the syslog messages from a host 192.168.1.10 to
a host 192.168.1.3. Both are running Redhat 9 Linux.

There is no DNS in the network.

I did the following steps:

On the log server:
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1. I edited the /etc/services file to add the line

syslogd    514/UDP

2. I stopped the syslogd with "service syslogd stop".
3. I restarted the network service too?
4. I srated the syslogd from command line using "syslogd -r"

Question: Can syslog do both remote (listen for other syslogs)
and local logging (for the log server's messages)?

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On the remote machine:
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1. I edited /etc/syslog.conf to add this line

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none              
@mycomputer  -------> New line

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none               
/var/log/messages -------> Deleted Line
                                                             
                  
2. In the /etc/hosts file I entered the line

192.168.1.3   mycomputer

Problem: The syslogd failed to start.

Please advise. 

Thanks a lot.