Hello Pallagi, Thank you for the prompt response, very appreciated. Im running syslog at the client side and syslog-ng at the server side. Currently I have setup both and Im getting the following prefix into the log file on my syslog-ng server (this log is generated from apache on my client server), "logger: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX - - [26/Nov/2009:11:11:36 -0600] \"GET... " The issue is how can I configure syslog-ng to remove the "logger:" prefix when logging. Basically I just want a clean log same way like if I had an access_log file configured on apache on the client. Thank you in advance. --- On Thu, 11/26/09, Pallagi Zoltán <pzolee@balabit.hu> wrote:
From: Pallagi Zoltán <pzolee@balabit.hu> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] filter logger tags from syslog To: "Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list" <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>, josesan311@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 6:40 AM
Hi Jose,
Jose Sanchez írta:
Hello,
I've been using classic syslog for centralizing apache access logs from one server to a remote syslog server, the thing is syslog adds some nasty tags before the lines in the access logs and I cant get them off, ie:
"Nov 25 21:25:37 server1 logger:"
I would like to know if syslog-ng has the option to filter this kind of stuff, I just want to have the logs sent to the syslog server exactly like I was saving them in a local access.log file.
I don't understand you completely where you use syslog or syslog-ng on these hosts
If you use syslog-ng then yes the syslog-ng can do it. There is an example of the possible solutions if both sides are syslog-ng:
client side:
source s_file{file("/var/log/apache2/access.log"
flags(no-parse)
);};
destination d_tcp{tcp("10.30.0.32" port(666)
template("$MSG\n")
);};
log {
source(s_file);
destination(d_tcp);
};
server side:
source s_tcp{tcp(port(666)
flags(no-parse)
);};
destination d_test { file("/var/log/test.log"
template("$MSG\n")
); };
log {
source (s_tcp);
destination(d_test);
};
if you use syslogd on client side and syslog-ng on the server side you need to use a config like this (but I am not sure in this case):
source s_tcp{udp(port(514));};
destination d_test { file("/var/log/test.log"
template("$MSG\n")
); };
log {
source (s_tcp);
destination(d_test);
};
Thanks in advance.
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