Re: [CentOS] Syslog question

2008-11-20 Thread Marc G.
Thanks, I'll check the rsyslog documentation out. I have several apps that generate logs and I want to keep the log statements generated by each app separate. Syslog is great, just that the number of local facilities is not enough. -- m On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] Syslog question

2008-11-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Marc G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. Can any of the syslog alternatives be configured to have more local > facilities than what's available in syslog (I think syslog-ng has the same > problem) ? > -- m As Ignacio has already said, it's pretty much not poss

Re: [CentOS] Syslog question

2008-11-20 Thread Marc G.
Thank you. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:10 -0500, Marc G. wrote: > > Thanks. Can any of the syslog alternatives be configured to have more > > local facilities than what's available in syslog (I think syslog-ng > >

Re: [CentOS] Syslog question

2008-11-20 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:10 -0500, Marc G. wrote: > Thanks. Can any of the syslog alternatives be configured to have more > local facilities than what's available in syslog (I think syslog-ng > has the same problem) ? Unfortunately no. The facilities are defined at the C level; see man 3 syslog fo

Re: [CentOS] Syslog question

2008-11-20 Thread Marc G.
Thanks. Can any of the syslog alternatives be configured to have more local facilities than what's available in syslog (I think syslog-ng has the same problem) ? -- m On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:29 -0500, Marc G. w

Re: [CentOS] Syslog question

2008-11-20 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:29 -0500, Marc G. wrote: > I may be posting to the wrong list here, and in that case I apologize > in advance, but is there a way to configure the standard Centos 5 > syslog daemon to use more local facilities than local0 to local7? Nope. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMA

[CentOS] Syslog question

2008-11-20 Thread Marc G.
I may be posting to the wrong list here, and in that case I apologize in advance, but is there a way to configure the standard Centos 5 syslog daemon to use more local facilities than local0 to local7? Thank you. -- m ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Bart Baars
good as well, a little easier to config. Cheers, Bart - Original Message - From: "James Pifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:31:53 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: [

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread nate
James Pifer wrote: > Any suggestions? It's so close now! I've never heard of rsyslog myself it sounds new, I've been using syslog-ng for at least 6 years now and it works great. Here is a sample config I ran at my last company: client: http://portal.aphroland.org/~aphro/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf_

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 12:52 -0600, Milton Calnek wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > James Pifer wrote: > | Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from > | different hosts to specific files? > > You need rsyslog for that. > I believe that FC9 has an rp

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Milton Calnek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Kjellstrom wrote: | | Worth noting, rsyslog-2.0.0-11.el5 is in base since CentOS-5.2. | ooh... that's definately worth noting. - -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 306-717-8737 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, David Mackintosh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:46:39PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > > Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from > > different hosts to specific files? > > I use syslog-ng for that, I think from rpmforge. > > http://wiki.xdroop.com/

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread David Mackintosh
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:46:39PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from > different hosts to specific files? I use syslog-ng for that, I think from rpmforge. http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/Sun/Syslog-ng -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh |

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Milton Calnek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Pifer wrote: | Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from | different hosts to specific files? You need rsyslog for that. I believe that FC9 has an rpm for it. There are other places to find one as well. KB may have one in

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread James Pifer
> James Pifer wrote: > | I have a 64bit centos 5.2 system. My router supports sending logs to a > | syslog server, so I was hoping to send them to my centos box so > they are > | easier to keep an eye on. > | > > On your CentOS box, edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog. The comments in the > file should be

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread David Mackintosh
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:32:19PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > Any suggestions or guidance? By default, your syslog does not accept syslog entries from remote systems. Edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog, and add a '-r' parameter to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS option, and restart syslog. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Milton Calnek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Pifer wrote: | I have a 64bit centos 5.2 system. My router supports sending logs to a | syslog server, so I was hoping to send them to my centos box so they are | easier to keep an eye on. | On your CentOS box, edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog. The

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Bart Baars
/ Vienna Subject: [CentOS] syslog question I have a 64bit centos 5.2 system. My router supports sending logs to a syslog server, so I was hoping to send them to my centos box so they are easier to keep an eye on. I've been googling for howto's etc, but I didn't think syslog would be t

[CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread James Pifer
I have a 64bit centos 5.2 system. My router supports sending logs to a syslog server, so I was hoping to send them to my centos box so they are easier to keep an eye on. I've been googling for howto's etc, but I didn't think syslog would be that difficult. Do I need to use syslog-ng or can I use