[syslog-ng]syslog-ng newbie facility question

[Josh Endries]

Hiya everyone,

I'm pretty new to syslog-ng, and I'm currently working on converting our 
current "normal" syslog daemons (FreeBSD) ro syslog-ng and setting up a 
central loghost. So far so good -- everything is working, even through 
stunnel and TCP, which is awesome. I'm going to try and get it into 
PostgreSQL next.

Anyway, my question is about logging facilities. I never thought about 
this with syslogd; I always assumed I was limited to the normal 
facilities, local2 and mail and whatnot. But looking through the 
syslog-ng config file it occurred to me that I may be able to create my 
own facility filters. For example, create an apache facility and have 
Apache log to this. I could then pipe Apache to the log host and have it 
consolidate all that stuff into httpd-error files in the new directory 
hierarchy.

Thanks! :)

-- 
Josh