RE: [Nolug] SYSLOG Recommendation?

Cool... would you mind posting your syslog.conf. I just want to see that
syntax. I checked and the syslog on my openbsd box does not appear to
have that functionality either.

ray

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, John Souvestre wrote:

> Hi Ray.
>
> The one which comes with FreeBSD allows you to specify what you want to go
> into each log. Thus you can set up a log per device, plus have a log of high
> priority items regardless of device, etc...
>
> John
>
> John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@nolug.org [mailto:owner-nolug@nolug.org] On Behalf Of -ray
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 5:14 PM
> To: nolug@nolug.org
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] SYSLOG Recommendation?
>
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Joey Kelly wrote:
>
>>> Has anyone seen such an animal?
>>
>> I haven't done it, but syslog on *nix is able to receive log info from other
>> machines. Once there, you ought to be able to parse for each host.
>
> Yes, but the problem is it dumps everything from every host/device (for a
> facility.priority) to the same log file. Parsing that file for each host
> is what's a pain... it'd be nice if that was built into syslog.
>
> I believe syslog-ng has that functionality but i have not used it before.
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/syslog-ng/
>
> Here's a config snippet i saw on the mini-howto that seems to do what
> Charles wants:
>
> destination hosts {
> file("/var/log/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"
> owner(root) group(root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700) create_dirs(yes));
> };
>
> log {
> source(src);
> destination(hosts);
> };
>
> ray
>

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Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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