Yes, there are a number of solutions. We log about about 58 various Solaris/Linux hosts to a number of dedicated central logging systems. One cool solution is in your syslog-ng.conf: file( "/var/logs/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$HOST.$FACILITY.log" create_dirs(yes)); It will create a series of dirs like above, also you may like: file( "/var/logs/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY.log" create_dirs(yes)); One reason we like this so much is there is no need for external log-rotation. Its all built into syslog-ng. (Nice work devel'ers, we really like that feature) Other than that, just have a machine/network that can keep up with the log traffic ;-) -Matt Quoting Dennis Kruyt <d.kruyt@zx.nl>:

Hi,

What sould be the best solution with syslog-ng for logging about 20 hosts to one log machine and to sort them on that machine. Has someone done this before????

Dennis Kruyt,

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