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Add warning about unencrypted data transfer
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Jochen Schalanda authored May 29, 2018
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## Sending syslog from Linux systems into Graylog

The two most popular syslog deamons (the programs that run in the background to accept and write or forward logs) are *rsyslog* and *syslog-ng*. One of these will most likely be running on your Linux distribution. (Please refer to your distribution documentation if you are unsure)
The two most popular syslog deamons (the programs that run in the background to accept and write or forward logs) are [rsyslog](https://www.rsyslog.com/) and [syslog-ng](https://syslog-ng.com/). One of these will most likely be running on your Linux distribution.

Please refer to the documentation of your distribution if you are not sure about this.

### ⚠️ Warning ⚠️

**These instructions configure rsyslog and syslog-ng to send log messages _unencrypted_ over the network. This is generally not recommended on public networks.**

### rsyslog

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The above configuration should be placed as new file in `/etc/rsyslog.d/` and rsyslog should be restarted. In addition the port 514 on the Graylog server need to be reachable from the sending server.

### old rsyslog
### Old rsyslog
If you're using a very old version of rsyslog (versions before rsyslog 5.10) which doesn't provide the built-in [RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format](http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v5-stable/configuration/templates.html#string-based-templates>) template, you can create a custom message template.

For **UDP** this becomes:
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