On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 23:07, bascule wrote: > i'm reading 'man syslogd' and it leaves me with two questions regarding > receiving syslog messages from other hosts: > 1. where do i find the place to append the '-r' switch to enable receiving > these remote messages?
/etc/sysconfig/syslog > 2. is it possible to setup /etc/syslog.conf so that messages from specific > hosts are dealt with differently than same level messages from other/local > host? Dunno > > also given that my ultimate aim is to have any high alert messages from other > hosts appear as mail for me on my main workstation is the remote syslog thing > the right way to go? > > bascule Sure. Also, install logcheck. It will parse your logs and present you with an email that has entries sorted by degrees of seriousness. -- Mitch Thompson, San Antonio TX Key fingerprint = BBDA 3A2A 4483 BD0D 7CED B8A9 D183 C8F6 B0AF 66AE -- Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft®, recently referred to Linux as a cancer. Unsuprisingly, this is incorrect - Linux was released on August 25th, 1991, and is therefore a virgo.
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