Send Dovecot logs to rsyslog

Brad Guzules unixmfwic at mac.com
Fri Feb 5 15:52:11 UTC 2016


Hi Nicolas,

If you use 'logger' to test local5.info without Dovecot in the mix do you have success reaching your remote server?

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> On Feb 5, 2016, at 6:42 AM, Nicolas Fo <nicocofo2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I'm trying to send Dovecot logs to a Graylog server.
> To do this, I'd like to pass logs to rsyslog and rsyslog pass logs to
> remote Graylog server.
> I set in dovecot.conf : syslog_facility = local5.info
> I set in rsyslog.conf : local5.info           @192.168.xxx.xxx:5555
> Restarted services and it doesn't work.
> 
> I use nmap to test if port 5555 is opened and this port is open.
> 
> What missed I ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nicolas


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