i'd suggest logging to a loghost, in clasic syslog.conf: *.* @loghost will send all logs to loghost machine, which has to be added to your hosts file. if you are using syslog-ng, it's slightly more complicated, but gives you more advantages! syslog-ng can send via TCP, so you can encrypt it with stunnel .. having an old-skool syslog at port 514(udp) is a potential security hole, but i do use it localy. once tried to have it over the internet - had about 5 people attacking me after a few hours!
i can post a syslog-ng.conf file if you wish .. i couldn't get stunnel working yet ;( but there tutorials .. On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:18:13PM +0100, Derek Holzer wrote: > Either way could work, the ramdisk is a particularly good idea. Unless > the installation is networked, there's not too much need for logfiles in > the classic server or multiuser environment sort of sense. You could > probably also just disable to logging daemon by removing it from the > boot scripts using rc-update (on Gentoo at least, or with another > distro-specific equivalent). I imagine that logging would simply just > fail quietly if the partition were read-only... I mean, what would log > the fact that the logs weren't logging? ;-) > > best, > d. > > Peter Plessas wrote: > > * Derek Holzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-31 18:47]: > >> So I made sure to mount all my drives read-only, and that everything > >> would start from a script on power-up. Having the whole operating system > >> on a Flash card/USB stick (again, no logging, read-only) is also quite > > > > How do you do that? Do you mount /var/log as ramdisk which gets erased > > at reboot, or do you tell every service/daemon not to log? > > > -- > derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista > ---Oblique Strategy # 184: > "Where is the edge?" > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list