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? Much thanks, Garrett -- Garrett Kuchta [gkuchta[at]astro.umn.edu] Assistant System Manager Dept. of Astronomy University of Minnesota, Twin Cities http://www.astro.umn.edu/~gkuchta
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 15:54, 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?
I use it with the stock syslogd that comes with red hat linux and I've used it with sun's syslogd. it works fine. -sv
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:54:46PM -0600, 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?
We have old and new irix machines, Linux, Windows, and Solaris machines running a mixture (which is becomming more and more syslog-ng) of syslogd and syslog-ng. At one point we had NetBSD in the picture as well. All log without any difficulty to syslog-ng (running under Solaris). I even went through the trouble of adding the special IRIX, BSD, and Linux facilities to the Solaris build. This lets AUTHPRIV (Linux), AUDIT(IRIX), SECURITY(BSD), CONSOLE(BSD) and LFMT(IRIX) be recognized rather than being dumped into your catch all log file (messages usually). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __o Bradley Arlt Email: arlt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca o__ _ \<_ WWW: www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~bdarlt _>/ _ (_)/(_) -Eat well, sleep peacefully, drink lots, and ride like hell. (_)\(_)
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.
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