June 2003 - syslog-ng - lists.balabit.hu

How do I adjust logging for "foreign" facilites?
by Wayne Sweatt 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

I am running syslog-ng-1.6.0rc2+20030423 on Solaris 8. I see a problem with the udp logging of facilities from non-Solaris clients. For example, syslog-ng is storing the authpriv facility from Linux clients as "a" as the $FACILITY value, and cron as "9". It also sets the value of "a" for MacOS X client's netinfo facility. I can understand strange values for the "non_Solaris" facilites - authpriv and netinfo, but . the cron value is set correctly from Solaris clients while not for Linux clients. I thought these numeric Facility codes were "standard' between OSes. Any explanations? Is there a suggested way to convert these values at runtime using filters(?), or maybe there an easy way to re-compile this functionality in for Solaris? The logs are arriving and being stored just fine, it's just the $FACILITY value that I would like to translate back to it's native "name" for clean parsing reasons. Thanks, Wayne Sweatt

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Help - How do I reply to a thread?
by Wayne Sweatt 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

How do I reply to a thread? The Web Form has no "Reply" action built in, so I'm assuming it's a Subject line format? Thanks, Wayne Sweatt Sr. UNIX System Administrator Comforce Technical Services LANL SCC Team

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Losing 25% of messages using UDP
by Wayne Sweatt 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

I just changed my udp_recv_hiwat to 65536 (Solaris 8). It worked for me! Wayne Sweatt Sr. UNIX System Administrator Comforce Technical Services LANL SCC Team

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Rotate my logs files
by Moktar KONE 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

Hi , I am testing syslog-ng and I want to know how can I rotate my logs file . To logs messages I have a directory for many hosts, for each host, logs are classified by facilities, I have a new log file each day for each facility. so the name of my logs files changes according to the date. how can rotate the old log files? the logs of 2days ago? 3days ago? thanks this is the section that logs my files : destination hosts { file("/var/log/HOSTS/$HOST/$FACILITY/$FACILITY_$YEAR_$MONTH_$DAY" create_dirs(yes)); };

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