Re: Best way to log from several servers

2003-03-02 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Thomas, We have a few servers and we are getting tired of having to log into each of them to check the logfile. (like tail -f /var/somelog) Is there a way to log things like /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog to one central logging server ? yes of course: set up a central syslog

Re: Best way to log from several servers

2003-03-02 Thread Paidhi
Hi, We have a few servers and we are getting tired of having to log into each of them to check the logfile. (like tail -f /var/somelog) Is there a way to log things like /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog to one central logging server ? /thomas I use syslog-ng to do this for some

Best way to log from several servers

2003-02-28 Thread Thomas von Hassel
We have a few servers and we are getting tired of having to log into each of them to check the logfile. (like tail -f /var/somelog) Is there a way to log things like /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog to one central logging server ? /thomas -- Thomas von Hassel Vermø Gruppen ApS Tlf.: 70

Re: Best way to log from several servers

2003-02-28 Thread Thomas von Hassel
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Rus Foster wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Thomas von Hassel wrote: We have a few servers and we are getting tired of having to log into each of them to check the logfile. (like tail -f /var/somelog) Is there a way to log things like /var/log/messages and

Re: Best way to log from several servers

2003-02-28 Thread Peter Elsner
You could write a Perl script to parse them and email them to you ... That's what I did for about 14 of my customers... I get an email daily that emails me the logs. You could take that a step further and have them FTP'd to a central server instead and then write another script to go through

Re: Best way to log from several servers

2003-02-28 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Thomas von Hassel wrote: On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Rus Foster wrote: you want to tweak /etc/syslogd.conf. You can log to remote machine using something like *.* @loghost.domain.com You might have to configure the firewall/remote syslog to accept the connections. Also if there is

Re: Best way to log from several servers

2003-02-28 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Thomas von Hassel wrote: On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Rus Foster wrote: ok, that would take care of the sending side, what about the receiving side ? /thomas The server side just need a syslogd running with the appropiate -a flages See man syslogd

Re: Best way to log from several servers

2003-02-28 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! You could write a Perl script to parse them and email them to you ... That's what I did for about 14 of my customers... I get an email daily that emails me the logs. As mentioned by Roger Vetterberg, the Real Men (tm) of course configure syslogd to have all machines to log to a central