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From: caussep@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe CAUSSE)
Subject: Re: syslog'ing to another machine
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:05:43 GMT
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Kurt Schafer (kschafer@cyberbeach.net) wrote:
: Can anybody give some pointers on how one would configure syslogd to log
: messages to a different machine on the network ? (and likewise how to set
: up the destination machine to accept them)
The answer is written in "man 5 syslog.conf"
Look at these lines:
# Everybody gets emergency messages, plus log them on another
# machine.
*.emerg *
*.emerg @arpa.berkeley.edu
The last line specifies that `emergency' logs are sent to the machine
"arpa.berkeley.edu". Put the name of the machine you want logs to be sent to
in lieu of arpa.berkeley.edu and it will do the job !
As simple as this 8-)
: Right now I've been mounting /var/log from the destination machine to the
: log machines but I don't really like doing this because of potential NFS
: locking problems.
You're perfectly right ! Mounting /var is not a good thing to do !
BTW, even for mail ! The recommended way for mail is to use the IMAP
daemon, which avoid NFS file lockings...
: TIA
: -Kurt
Cheers,
Phil.
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