Testing Syslog from the CLI

Install a syslog server

This will get a basic rsyslog server running on UDP port 514.

brew install rsyslog
mkdir /tmp/rsyslog
rsyslogd -f /usr/local/etc/rsyslog.conf -i /usr/local/var/run/rsyslogd.pid

Config file

cat /usr/local/etc/rsyslog.conf
$ModLoad imudp
$UDPServerRun 514
$template RemoteLogs …
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