Not sure on that last post. Each webserver's vhosts name the logs in the following manner (ws = webserver); ws1.sitename.com-access ws1.sitename,com-error ws1.othersite.com-access ... and so on. So I simply want to send every file (rather than logging local) to goto the central. When I look at the central, I will have only log folder with; ws1.sitename.com-access ws2.sitename.com-access ... and so on The post above noticed I was doing a folder (/var/log/apache2) where I don't know if you can say for the source /var/log/apache2/* or something. I am also puzzled as this to me is a real basic thing. Take ALL apache logs and send to remote box. No-one has come and said, here is my config and it works fine. Just something that I can look at an entire server and client to see how it's done (which is why I posted mine). Really thought this was an easy thing. Even using webmin. There is no clear cut, a server is setup like this, remote client like that. Fustrating is not even the start of how to describe this, but thanks for all replies so far. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Siem Korteweg <Siem.Korteweg@qnh.nl> wrote:
Lance,
Depending on how you want to process the collected logfiles, you can also configure Apache:
ErrorLog syslog:local1 CustomLog "|/usr/bin/logger -t apache -i -p local6.notice" combined
This can be done global (for all virtual hosts) or per virtual host. How to add the name of the virtual host to the messages in the access logs can be found here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/logs.html
All that remains to be done is to forward syslog from the client with the webservers to the syslog-ng server.
regards,
Siem Korteweg
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu namens lance raymond Verzonden: di 21-7-2009 4:07 Aan: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Onderwerp: Re: [syslog-ng] Before the basic 101 questions
Joe, thanks for the update. Yes, that is the directory name. Now regarding the "file", I will start a little more reading, but I don't think I would have to do this for each file right? This server (along with the others in the cluster) have 12 or so virtual sites, each with it's own access and error log, so that would be at least 24 'file' sources. Is there a way to wildcard it?
Also, (I know this too is a basic Q) but are these defined on the server/client or both? I still don't see how they mesh, but soon, oh soon when that light comes on!
Thanks
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Fegan, Joe <Joe.Fegan@hp.com> wrote:
I'm no apache expert, but I think /var/log/apache2 is the name of a directory that contains apache log files, right? But you have defined it as a unix-stream source:
source inputs { internal(); unix-stream("/var/log/apache2"); udp(); tcp(max_connections(100)); };
unix-stream is for reading a socket, not a directory, so this can't work...
You can use "file" sources for individual files in that directory..
------------------------------ *From:* syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] *On Behalf Of *lance raymond *Sent:* 20 July 2009 21:52 *To:* Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list *Subject:* Re: [syslog-ng] Before the basic 101 questions
ok, here is the update. I have built a standalone ubuntu box to be the central server so now have that I can 'play' with. It's a clean install,and really not sure what to do as this list seems to be the best resource. So, I would think you can specify 'a' logfile, but I need ALL the apache logs centrally located, so going to say, take everything from /var/log/apache2 and send it to the central log server.
The central log server as I said is a default setup, due to size, I copied them up to a play webserver, the server can be seen here; server.conf <http://www.darkerforce.com/server.conf> and the client here (the only thing changed is the remote IP) client.conf <http://www.darkerforce.com/client.conf>
When left like that and syslog-ng is started on the client I get the following;
Error binding socket; addr='AF_UNIX(/var/log/apache2)', error='Address already in use (98)' Error initializing source driver; source='inputs'
As I said before, I am not looking for anything complex, etc. Just want ALL the weblogs to goto one box which is really the function of syslog-ng. I am sure there is one or two things that need a tweak, and I can go from there.
Thanks.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Sandor Geller < Sandor.Geller@morganstanley.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:06 PM, lance raymond<lance.raymond@gmail.com
wrote:
What I thought of was to make each file unique; ws = webserver;
ws1.domain.com-access_log ws2.domain.com-access_log
and just write them each to an nfs share.
It'd not the name of the files which matter. When a single process (like syslog-ng) writes to a file then NFS behaves well. The problems start when there are multiple processes trying to access the same file. Disabling attribute caching in the NFS client could help, but this could have a big impact on performance.
Not flaming the group at all, actually Bazsi your name shows up more than any of my normal mail :) But, I have tried twice with a reply or two, and once conf files were sent up and/or shown the thread died. I see some very intersting questions, answers on the group and it would be nice to see some of these things, but really, I am talking about a handful of webservers (nothing fancy) just to write to a central log and it's not working. The basic syslog @server worked perfect, since the platform updates, just not working, but I appreciate the reply.
So could you please tell what is the actual problem?
Regards,
Sandor
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