Hi there, On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 Nick Baronian wrote:
Is there a way I can duplicate the name schema the remote box is using
I don't know exactly what you mean by that, and I do't think I'd know the answer if I did. :)
What I mean is if I have two boxes I want to log to this syslog-ng server, one is an old Unix box that is logging *.info;mail.none locally to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and the other is a RH Linux box that logs *.info;mail.none locally to /var/log/messages is there a way the remote syslog-ng server can be configured to write the *.info;mail.none for the Linux box to a messages file and for logs it receives from the Unix box to a syslog.log file?
That should be no problem at all, but I think you're going to have to knuckle down and read the documentation. You'd tell the two boxes to log to the logging server and create a few rules on the logging server which log to different places depending on which of the two boxes sent the log message. If I were doing it, I'd have the two boxes decide what to log and the logging server decide only where (which file) to log it in. Otherwise you might create a lot of network traffic which contained information that would be discarded by the logging server. You seem to attach some significance to the names of these logfiles. Is there a reason for that? -- 73, Ged.