[syslog-ng] syslog-ng and windows

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Mon May 30 13:23:37 CEST 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 11:08 +0200, JF Suret wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using syslog-ng as a central log server, and I have both linux and windows clients. I know that there are some syslog windows clients ( NTsyslog, snare) but I can't find any open source syslog-ng clients.
> 
> What I'm looking for is (at least if it does not exist) information on the TCP data format used by syslog-ng.
> So I could write a little udp to tcp syslog translator that could be used on windows clients (and maybe modify NTsyslog if I have enought time...)

It is basically the same as UDP, the only exception is that messages has
to be translated by an NL or NUL characters as otherwise there's no way
to recognize message boundary.

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Bazsi



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