On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 02:54 PM, gkuchta@astro.umn.edu wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if syslog-ng does, or at any point will, support taking logs from non syslog-ng daemons. I've poked around the documentation and the mailing list, but I didn't see this mentioned anywhere. Our department has a few old irix machines that graduate students run Fortran code on, and we'd like to forward logs from these machines to our new syslog-ng server. I played with the idea for about 30minutes earlier today, but couldn't get anything going. Is this possible? Will it be?
Any syslog daemon is non-descriminatory. If syslog packets arrive, regardless of what generated them (syslog, msyslog, syslog-ng, routers, switches, etc), syslog-ng will process them. It's not mentioned anywhere because it's a non-issue. If you couldn't get it going then it was probably an error in your config.