How does one enable remote listening with rsyslog?
I'm configuring a Debian Squeeze server to receive syslog from some appliances, but rsyslog is refusing to listen to UDP 514.
The closest I have been able to get from it is to make it listen to TCP 514 with -c2 -r -t514. I haven't found any combination of parameters that got it listening on UDP.
Squeeze's rsyslog version is 4.6.4-2.
In your /etc/rsyslog.conf:
$ModLoad imudp.so
$UDPServerRun 514
Then in your rsyslogd start options (/etc/sysconfig/rsyslog on RHEL-based distros, not sure where it resides in Debian-based ones), you need to add -r514 to SYSLOGD_OPTIONS.