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Date:      Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:58:07 +0100
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?
Message-ID:  <4ED3D9BF.701@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <4ED3CE66.4020903@gmail.com>
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On 11/28/11 7:09 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
> [...snip...]
>> Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely.  However something
>> like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better.
>>
>> -- 
>> Adam Vande More
> 
> Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible
> with syslog but again something failed with that in order to write to
> the created logfile???
> 


We have absolutely no problems whatsoever with rsyslogd here.

It runs on our FreeBSD firewall boxes and logs both to local files and
a remote server running rsyslogd on debian.



Additionally and in reply to your need to track what happens on your
network, I very highly recommend Observium which we have been running
for over 18 months now and which I use on an almost daily basis.

http://www.observium.org/wiki/Main_Page

The icing on the cake is that you'll be able to export your logs to
Observium directly.



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