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From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: "Waeytens, Filip" <Filip.Waeytens@ebone.com>
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Subject: Re: syslog: user defined facilities
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:11:38PM +0100, Waeytens, Filip wrote:

> I want to send syslog messages to a remote host, with facility local7.
> I want this user-defined facility to hold ALL syslog messages, so in a way
> duplicate all my syslog messages to a remote host, but I want to make a rule
> in syslog.conf on my remote machine that sends them to a separate file, like
> /var/log/remote.log .

This sounds like an XYZ question to me.

What's wrong with the +host syntax of syslog.conf ?

Ceri

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