[Samba] full_audit syslog logging question

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 05:51:22PM +0000, Wyll Ingersoll via samba wrote:
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>In case anyone is interested, I found the problem.
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>I was running samba in a container that did not have any syslog service (rsyslogd or syslog-ng) running.  By default, samba syslog only sends messages to the system's syslog socket and there was nothing listening on it so the messages just got dropped.  I put rsyslogd in the container and configured it to listen on the syslog socket and am now able to forward the logs as desired.
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>Feature request:  add a syslog logging option in the [global] config section that would allow a syslog destination address:port option to send logs elsewhere without requiring a local syslog daemon to do it.
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>thanks!

Thanks very much for following up with the answer, that's
going to be very useful for others running Samba in a
container.