[syslog-ng]New user of syslog-ng

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 09:16:53AM +0800, Zulazman Zakaria wrote:
> Hi Bazsi
> I'm Zulazman Zakaria from Telekom Malaysia. I'm working on additional syslog
> daemon You have shown us the replacement of default syslog daemon which is
> called syslog-ng. I have succesfully installed the syslog-ng Solaris 7
> server, but I have some question to ask. I'm a new person which using
> syslog-ng.
> 1) Can we use current syslog daemon simultaneously with syslog-ng? I mean
> the current syslog daemon still can log up to 8 machines  and syslog-ng
> shall log up the other 5 machines?

the only problem I see is the port used to receive messages will collide.
(UDP 514) It can work however if your system is multihomed or you can assign
several IP aliases to the same machine

> 2) If no, do we have to log all the syslog including default syslog using
> syslog-ng?
> 3) How to write the script (syslog-ng) in order to get the all the machine's
> logs?
> 4) How can we specify the all machines in syslog-ng script? I mean on which
> column we shall specify the machines whether using the facility or IP
> address because we have aound 14 machines. For your information, the
> machines we are using is a Broadband Access Server.

I don't understant these questions.

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Bazsi
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