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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:27:50 -0600
From:      Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
To:        Paul Halliday <paul.halliday@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can stock syslog do hostA -> fileA?
Message-ID:  <914629F3-8411-4B69-A5C5-B55055E29E7E@goldmark.org>
In-Reply-To: <2dab70a30902260619j67d56555g3de8dfd4a60a1abe@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2dab70a30902260619j67d56555g3de8dfd4a60a1abe@mail.gmail.com>

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On Feb 26, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Paul Halliday wrote:

> I am collecting syslogs from a PIX and a couple of Barracudas. It
> would be a lot easier for each to have their own logfile. I have been
> poking around a bit; I saw this one:
>
> +host1 /var/log/host1
>
> but it doesn't appear to work.

Years ago I tried and failed at the same.  Since then, I've moved to  
syslog-ng which I've been extremely happy with.

Here is the bit in my syslog-ng.conf file for logging things from  
remote hosts

# for stuff from remote hosts:
destination hosts {
     file("/var/log/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY-$YEAR$MONTH 
$DAY"
     owner(daemon) group(wheel) dir_owner(daemon) dir_group(wheel)
     perm(0640) dir_perm(0750) create_dirs(yes));
};

log {
     source(s_udp);
     destination(hosts);
};


Cheers,

-j


-- 
Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/




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