From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 6 6:10:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.targetnet.com (mail.targetnet.com [207.245.246.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F7F37B9F0 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 06:10:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@targetnet.com) Received: from james by mail.targetnet.com with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 12dC3H-000J43-00; Thu, 06 Apr 2000 09:10:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:10:27 -0400 From: James FitzGibbon To: goten@linux.sduteam.com Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Queston on secure syslogd Message-ID: <20000406091026.B34667@targetnet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: Organization: Targetnet.com Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * goten@linux.sduteam.com (goten@linux.sduteam.com) [000405 13:40]: > Ok, I am just wondering if there is any secure alternative for syslogd. > Since I want to send the log file via TCP/IP over the Internet, using > @1.2.3.4 in syslogd.conf is not secure enough if that IP is not on the > LAN. Look at syslog-ng: http://www.balabit.hu/products/syslog-ng/index.html It offers forwarding of logs over TCP/IP instead of UDP/IP, as well as hashing and compression of the stream. -- j. James FitzGibbon james@targetnet.com Targetnet.com Inc. Voice/Fax +1 416 306-0466/0452 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message