rsyslogd running but cannot connect on port?

Question

These are my configuration lines on rsyslog.conf

$ModLoad imudp
$UDPServerAddress 127.0.0.1
$UDPServerRun 1029

After restarting

I run

sudo netstat -taupn | grep syslog

and it's running on port 1029

udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:1029          0.0.0.0:*                           24675/rsyslogd  

I've disabled my firewall and even checked with nmap

but on telnet localhost 1029 -> Gives a connection refused error

How can i get this to work?

Solution

Telnet will only connect to TCP services. You have loaded the imudp module, which provides a UDP service.

You could use a tool like netcat (nc) to send messages to a UDP socket:

nc -u localhost 1029