syslogd-simple.pl1p

Usage

Overview

Listens for Syslog messages and logs to console and optional file. Tries to decode according to RFC 3164 message format. Syslog columns are:

  Source IP Address
  Source UDP port
  Facility
  Severity
  Timestamp (or 0 if not matched)
  Hostname  (or 0 if not matched)
  Message

Options

 -4               Force IPv4.
 -6               Force IPv6 (overrides -4).
 -d <dir>         Output file directory.
 --directory      DEFAULT:  (or not specified) [Current].
 -i #             UDP Port to listen on.
 --interface      DEFAULT:  (or not specified) 514.
 -l               Output list format.
 --list           DEFAULT:  (or not specified) Line.
 -t               Print time in human-readable yyyymmddhhmmss format.
 --time           DEFAULT:  (or not specified) Unix epoch.
 -w               Log to "syslogd.log".
 -w -w            Log by facility in "<facility>.log".
 -w -w -w         Log by hostname in "<host>.log".