From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 18:58:13 2011 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 D8EA3106564A for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:58:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1D08FC12 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:58:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahv2 with SMTP id v2so1048499lah.13 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.152.104.167 with SMTP id gf7mr29390846lab.46.1322506692214; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id no9sm32588576lab.0.2011.11.28.10.58.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:58:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED3D9BF.701@my.gd> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:58:07 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4ED38578.1000501@gmail.com> <4ED3CE66.4020903@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED3CE66.4020903@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files? 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: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:58:13 -0000 On 11/28/11 7:09 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > [...snip...] >> Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something >> like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. >> >> -- >> Adam Vande More > > Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible > with syslog but again something failed with that in order to write to > the created logfile??? > We have absolutely no problems whatsoever with rsyslogd here. It runs on our FreeBSD firewall boxes and logs both to local files and a remote server running rsyslogd on debian. Additionally and in reply to your need to track what happens on your network, I very highly recommend Observium which we have been running for over 18 months now and which I use on an almost daily basis. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Main_Page The icing on the cake is that you'll be able to export your logs to Observium directly.