Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:36:31 +0200 (SAST) From: Justin Stanford <jus@security.za.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: jason schwab <jasonschwab@hotmail.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, petef@databits.net, ghandi@mindless.com, amb78@nmia.com, nmlug@swcp.com Subject: Re: Syslog question... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006051236040.323-100000@Athena.za.net> In-Reply-To: <xzppupwa05q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Syslog-ng is great. Supports logging over tcp streams to any and all kinds of files, etc. Regards, jus -- Justin Stanford 082 7402741 jus@security.za.net www.security.za.net IT Security and Solutions On 5 Jun 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "jason schwab" <jasonschwab@hotmail.com> writes: > > I am going to have two public machines; and one machine > > that will do nothing except be a backup of syslog from both > > the public machines. on the syslog backup machine; is there > > any way to have different files from the logs coming from > > the different hosts? I dont want all the logs from both > > machines into the same files on to the logging backup > > machine.... > > If you want to use the stock FreeBSD syslogd, you'll have to run > multiple instances of syslogd with separate config files. Short of > hacking syslogd to allow the UDP port to be specified on the command > line and/or in the config file, the easiest way to do this is assign > multiple IP addresses to the logging machine and run each instance of > syslogd in a separate jail with a separate IP address. If you build a > static syslogd binary, the jail need not contain much: > /etc/syslog.conf, an empty /var/run directory, and your log files. > > If I were you, though, I'd take a look at the various other syslogd > implementations out there (ssyslogd and msyslogd at least). > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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