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Logging Cisco devises to syslog on FreeBSD Overview What we are going to do here is get a FreeBSD server up and running with syslog-ng, so that we can log information from our Cisco devises to it. This How-To will be pretty detailed and we will be logging data from Cisco Routers Switches and Cisco PIX Firewalls. We are going to get the syslog-ng daemon to create the log files automatically and to log to a new file each day, with a date stamp in the file name. Installation This is probable the easiest part All you have to do is “cd /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng” and run “make install clean” Now that the port is installed you can edit the syslog-ng startup script to change the following line from NO to YES : ${syslog_ng_enable:="NO"} : ${syslog_ng_enable:="YES"} also add syslog_ng_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf file Save the file, then edit your /etc/rc.conf file and add syslog_ng_enable="YES" and also add syslogd_enable="NO" this wil...