Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:44:43 +0100 From: Thomas von Hassel <t@garbage.dk> To: Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to log from several servers Message-ID: <69498004-4B1A-11D7-9EAA-003065B0995C@garbage.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030228043019.B28325@thor.65535.net>
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On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Rus Foster wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Thomas von Hassel wrote: > >> We have a few servers and we are getting tired of having to log into >> each of them to check the logfile. (like tail -f /var/somelog) >> >> Is there a way to log things like /var/log/messages and >> /var/log/maillog to one central logging server ? >> >> /thomas >> -- > > you want to tweak /etc/syslogd.conf. You can log to remote machine > using > something like > > *.* @loghost.domain.com > > You might have to configure the firewall/remote syslog to accept the > connections. Also if there is heavy network traffic you can not be > guarenteed to get the messages as it uses UDP rather than TCP. My > personal > advice would be log both locally and remotly > ok, that would take care of the sending side, what about the receiving side ? /thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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