Socat suggestion doesn't work

[kkeane]

This isn't really a bug since the socat entry is labeled as "not tested" but the socat entry does not work as suggested. For one, socat does not go in the background. Even when it is backgrounded, I was not able to make it work.

An alternate solution is to actually use rsyslogd with the following rsyslog.conf:

module(load="imuxsock")
*.* @@log:514

(where log is the FQDN or IP address of the log server)

It is enough to run rsyslogd without any arguments; it daemonizes itself.