Dear Pratik Rana
> The workaround suggested by you worked!! Glad I could help. > local logging using the logger command. However it would be really > helpfull if you could explain the reason behind this as well Unfortunately I can't really explain that as I don't have a deep knowlegde of rsyslog. But I had to read a lot of documentation about rsyslog and that is how I understood it is supposed to be done. > also after shutting down the syslog service at server, i can see > following message at client side, i think they are general retry > message to try rebuilding the connection with server: Yes, as far as I know those messages are normal when the remote server is not reachable. Once you start the remote server again you should get a log message that the operation (i.e. forwarding of logs) was resumed. Best, Cyril -- Universität Zürich Cyril Stoll Zentrale Informatik Stampfenbachstrasse 73 CH-8006 Zürich Tel. +41 44 63 5 22 93 www.zi.uzh.ch _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list https://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.

