Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:51:56 -0500 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: syslog dedicated machine Message-ID: <007801c16e17$5d2518e0$6600000a@ach.domain> In-Reply-To: <200111151447.AA2516975816@florida-wireless.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of brain_damaged > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:47 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: syslog dedicated machine > > Hello Anyone, > after reading the security page I am thinking of > putting it like it said with one machine doing just the logging. > I was wondering what the machine requirements would be for just > running the syslogd ? I dunno... I don't think that syslogd would put too much of a strain on the hardware, as all it's basically doing is taking system messages and throwing them into a log file. > Alot of hard space I would imagine but would a alot of memory and > process be needed ? Shouldn't be. > I have a p-100 sitting here with two big drives but It doesn't > have much memory. 16 megs I think. That should work fine, depending on the size of your network. You'd also want to have a NIC in that machine to match the fastest NIC on your LAN to prevent collisions and network bottlenecking at the syslogd server. > also what would happen if the syslog machine was down and the > others could not talk to it. > I have two postfix machines and one machine running > apahce,mysql,php,phpnuke ? > would they lockup or stop functioning ? Not sure, but I think it would be similar to those programs sending their syslog information to /dev/null. They'd still run, but you wouldn't get any logging info or debugging info. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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