From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 22 18:33:35 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6E616A417 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:33:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B837913C478 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:33:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so192818wra for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:33:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=VPJzlKgv21wogOm15OffyKd32ExmkqpZVvbOS+5iIJEbe3rDjY7cnGCBOpZU/dgwVatK4BMy3RfNVkDXEQhWNeEFU9pd6b0ol7GbdOGNmO5eJ+uHCKsQBkcwyTHA2smTdFUui7amlo2/imXkvERzbN/JSyIGpKRyxM7qpFyAwpU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=MP+w7XvuKrzfPsSxgizG1bca8UPsqRDr/+E3mS+zM78/Ix7ZRXqlxT7jXSbJzqStwDSnXkmDUTmkevydFtKSsdWQXjmFYvMtOOkTGl1LYlcvkRo1HcUmcOCsEQMSWuJ6shAG8Ef5M93vepl6/rdefNV4MIMLGB5R80htTsr+YtY= Received: by 10.90.69.8 with SMTP id r8mr5075901aga.1187807610572; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.14? ( [74.95.66.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f55sm1533414pyh.2007.08.22.11.33.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:33:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46CC8077.4050906@calarts.edu> References: <46CC8077.4050906@calarts.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6A59CA24-826E-4DC5-AD7F-29BC88CCD42D@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Crist Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:33:21 -0500 To: Sean Murphy X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog redundancy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:33:35 -0000 On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:29 PMAug 22, 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: > Can syslogd provide failover redundancy to another box? > > Should I configure my devices to send to two different syslogd > servers? (if the devices allow more then one syslogd box to log > to. If not I would like to know if the first option is available.) Sure, why not? Try man syslog.conf, or read what's already within your /etc/syslog.conf file. You'd just have to set up a rule to send off to another server, and configure that server to listen those requests, of course. We do this very thing for our public boxen so that there's less worry with log tampering, etc. HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks