Configuring JBoss AS 7.2 to log to syslog

Question

In my standalone.xml, I have the syslog-handler configured like so:

<syslog-handler name="SYSLOG" enabled="true">
     <level name="INFO"/>
     <hostname value="i-XXXXXXX"/>
     <formatter><syslog-format syslog-type="RFC3164"/></formatter>
</syslog-handler>
...
<root-logger>
      <level name="INFO"/>
      <handlers>
          <handler name="SYSLOG"/>
          <handler name="CONSOLE"/>
          <handler name="FILE"/>
      </handlers>
</root-logger>

Yet, no output is delivered to /var/log/syslog. If I start jboss with standalone.sh | logger, I do see output there, so I presume my rsyslogd is set up / working reasonably (a stock Ubuntu install, FWIW).

Answer 1

It turns out I didn't have rsyslog's UDP listener turned on. The standalone.xml configuration above is correct, I just had to add/uncomment this in /etc/rsyslogd.conf:

$ModLoad imudp
$UDPServerRun 514

/ht to jamezp in #wildfly on freenode for the help.