I think Will left out the answer you were after. If the Xserve is doing UDP transport, and syslog-ng goes on vacation, the messages sent while syslog-ng is unavailable will be lost. - billn On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, William Bell wrote:
Yes the syslog feed off the xserve is most likely UDP based and it will just continue to stream syslog messages to the unresponsive destination. There may or may not be a way to setup a backup syslog server in the Xserve admin functions.
WilliamB
-----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Ken Garland Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:30 PM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: [syslog-ng] Xserve sending to Syslog-NG
I have a question regarding setting up an Xserve to send to our central log server. If the Syslog-NG server goes down, will the Xserve continuously retry to send the logs until the Syslog-NG server is available?
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