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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Ricardo Pichler <linux@pichler.com.br>
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In the last episode (Jan 14), Ricardo Pichler said:
> > I've an slackware box that your main function is be a syslog
> > server! Ok, it work, but I need to separate the log for each box
> > that I've in files with the same name of box. Can anybody help me?
> >
> > e.g.: an entry in my /var/log/messages:
> > Jan 13 18:11:49 ns500 ns500-sjc: NetScreen device_id=ns500-sjc [Root]system-notification-00018: Policy ......
>
> Sorry, my box is a FreeBSD 5.2.1.

You can use hostname specifications to filter by dns name or IP:

+ns500
*.*	/var/log/machine/ns500

You will need one of these blocks per machine, though.

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	Dan Nelson
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