Syslog query - I'm probably doing something stoopid

From: Chopper (no.spam@for.me)
Date: 05/20/02 

From: Chopper <no.spam@for.me>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 00:13:25 GMT

Well g'day!

I'm in the process of setting syslog up to remotely log to a FreeBSD
box from 3 AIX boxes. is that a normal thing to do? Anyway, got it
working EXCEPT the central log host (ie the FreeBSD box) lags behind. It's
own syslog messages are fine - they are logging AS they happen - it's the
ones from the AIX boxes. they end up HOURS behind - after only a couple of
days.

Can anybody help?? Any more info required? I thought maybe that I am
trying to log too much - and yeah, when I log less they keep up - but from
what I've been able to find on the net, people remotely log a lot more than
I am attempting. I'm trying to remotely log everything at the 'info'
level. Is that overkill?

Additional info (just in case this is relevant): On the FreeBSD box I start
syslog with '-a' options for every machine that I'm remote logging from, ie
'syslogd -a 23.23.32.43/32:* -a 45.45.35.34/32:* -a 34.98.6.56/32:*'. i
understand that the '*' should be replaced by 514 - the udp port I'm
listening for - but when I put it in, it doesn't playthe game.

Any help appreciated! I'm out of ideas. I guess that I just log less and
make do with that.

Chop

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