[TriLUG] Syslog server

John Reuning jreuning at email.unc.edu
Thu Nov 8 11:16:32 EST 2001


syslog-ng has lots of nifty options including splitting up incoming log 
messages based on source.  That way, you could have a separate file for 
each machine logging to the syslog server.

-John R.

--On Thursday, November 08, 2001 09:32:51 AM -0500 Jeff Bollinger 
<jeff01 at email.unc.edu> wrote:

> Anyone have a really good (secure) way to set-up a syslog server, before
> I delve into How-tos and whatnot?  Here's the plan:
>
> System A reports its logs to System B.
> System B acts as a desktop workstation (though not installed that way)
> already, and reports its own logs via e-mail.
>
> I want to make sure that I have two separate and distinct logs coming
> from System B: System A's and System B's.




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