From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 6:27: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D4937B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:27:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77C743FA3 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1SEQnuA083832; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:26:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3E5F71AD.1080702@401.cx> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:26:53 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas von Hassel Cc: Rus Foster , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to log from several servers References: <69498004-4B1A-11D7-9EAA-003065B0995C@garbage.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas von Hassel wrote: > > On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Rus Foster wrote: >> >> you want to tweak /etc/syslogd.conf. You can log to remote machine using >> something like >> >> *.* @loghost.domain.com >> >> You might have to configure the firewall/remote syslog to accept the >> connections. Also if there is heavy network traffic you can not be >> guarenteed to get the messages as it uses UDP rather than TCP. My >> personal >> advice would be log both locally and remotly >> > > ok, that would take care of the sending side, what about the receiving > side ? > > /thomas Try 'man syslogd', its all in there. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message