Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:52:26 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> Subject: Re: which syslog??? (rsyslog? syslog-ng? or default?) Message-ID: <AANLkTik9LhK0ME7=ozcp=CGFZa19=sPumzngy0JARaKe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <16949_1294438428_4D27901C_16949_495_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499A7AF9102@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> References: <AANLkTimzv6QV0cS=LmSO%2BS--1NwqhhRz9zwZd4H4bJ8c@mail.gmail.com> <16949_1294438428_4D27901C_16949_495_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499A7AF9102@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com>
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On 7 January 2011 22:13, Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> wrote: > PS: rsyslog can use standard syslog.conf entries, or it has extensions that > enable more cool stuff. > > G > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto: > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Aleksandr Miroslav > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 3:09 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: which syslog??? (rsyslog? syslog-ng? or default?) > > I have some boxes (about 40) that I was tasked with creating a > centralized logging infrastructure for. I see in ports that we have > several different versions of rsyslog, and syslog-ng. > > Is there any reason to use one or the other? Or should I just use the > syslog that come with the base OS? > > thanks, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > <font size="1"> > <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in > 0in 1.0pt 0in'> > </div> > "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient > and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. > If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email > and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by > return email and delete this email from your system." > </font> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Ive used syslog-ng for central logging in the past. It support tcp, encryption and logging to a db. To be honest though the most useful feature was that you can expand log files paths to include the date and hostname. This makes backing up of the files far more efficient as you dont have to use newsyslog to rotate them, which is a good thing for backups especially if you use rsync
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