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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:24:23 +0100
From:      Paidhi <paidhi@mospheira.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best way to log from several servers
Message-ID:  <200303022124.23220.paidhi@mospheira.net>
In-Reply-To: <2B3CC68F-4B18-11D7-9EAA-003065B0995C@garbage.dk>
References:  <2B3CC68F-4B18-11D7-9EAA-003065B0995C@garbage.dk>

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Hi,

> 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

I use syslog-ng to do this for some Linux machines. Pretty powerful and not 
very hard to configure. It's available as Port 
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/syslog-ng/pkg-descr).

The following places might help if someone wants to learn about how to do 
central syslog and maybe monitoring your syslogs:

"Centralized Syslog Loghost Project"
http://www.campin.net/newlogcheck.html

"Syslog-ng FAQ"
http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html

The online sample chapter from the O'Reilly book "Building Secure Servers with 
Linux". It covers "System Log Management and Monitoring":
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bssrvrlnx/chapter/index.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bssrvrlnx/chapter/ch10.pdf


Regards,
  Markus


-- 
Unix _IS_ userfriendly. It's just selective about who it's friends are.



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