Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:52:58 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: change to syslog to allow specifying prot to send to.. Message-ID: <4436C31A.80006@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <C993FA7D-5907-4D76-A0CB-7AFEBBCE7C23@siliconlandmark.com> References: <443310BF.4030600@elischer.org> <C993FA7D-5907-4D76-A0CB-7AFEBBCE7C23@siliconlandmark.com>
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Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > On Apr 4, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> Does anyone think that this would be useful? >> >> the syslog.conf line would look like: >> >> >> *.* @logger.mynet.com:823 > > > Off the top of my head, there are two scenarios that I see this > useful in: > - Forwarding log messages to a secure syslog server, on a non- > privileged port (I think everyone agrees that reducing the number of > root-run services is a good thing). > - Logging to a remote syslog over a local port, forwarded over an ssh > tunnel (To an off-site centralized logging server, for example), > while still having local logging enabled. > > I have been looking for this type of functionality for a little while > now. I was about to look into coding it. Thanks! :) the first part of the patch is not required.... Included by accident. > > Andy > > /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ > /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ > /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ > /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, SQL, XHTML, XML */ >
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