Registered users of VARA HF are able to utilise the external logging syslog facility, but as VARA HF is a Windows program, that facility is provided on Windows through a 3rd party logging application.
On Linux, Syslog logging is built in but must be enabled as by default the UDP network portion of the ’rsyslogd’ daemon is disabled.
Only a couple of changes to the configuration file are required.
As root user, open the /etc/rsyslogd.conf file in a text editor and remove the # comment markers from the following lines
sudo nano /etc/rsyslogd.conf
Modify:
# provides UDP syslog reception #module(load="imudp") #input(type="imudp" port="514")
To:
# provides UDP syslog reception module(load="imudp") input(type="imudp" port="514")
Save and exit the text editor, then restart the rsyslogd process:
sudo service rsyslogd restart
VARA Settings
Monitoring
It should now be possible to watch VARA sessions in realtime by parsing the syslog file in a command line terminal:
tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep VARA
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