[syslog-ng]Could offline-mode be done with TCP option?

[Balazs Scheidler]

2004-04-05, h keltezéssel 01:53-kor Jason Haar ezt írta:
> Hi there
> 
> We're running a multi-country network of syslog-ng with centralized logging
> (via TCP).
> 
> However, due to the possibility of network failure, I am not willing to rely
> on the central server for triggering alerts - so we do that on the actual
> leaf syslog servers instead. However, it would be much better if we could
> actually centralize our alerting system (due to what we are alerting about).
> 
> So I was wondering if syslog-ng's TCP transport layer could be turned into
> something like MySQL's master-slave mode: write to a cache file first, then
> write to remote server, and if that succeeds, remove from cache file. 
> 
> That way if a network outage occurred, the cache file would just get larger
> and larger, then when the network came up again, it would flow through
> without any records being lost.
> 
> [I know the fifo option allows this in RAM - I guess all that I'm wondering
> about is could that be done on disk instead?. A cache file would survive
> restarts/etc.]

sorry, this is not currently possible.

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