[syslog-ng]Configure syslog-ng to act as a central logging server

[Ryan McCain]

Bill,

So I can simply add this to my conf. file (modifying owner, group, perm,
dir_perm of course) and it will start accepting logs from remote
servers?
 

Where do I specify which hosts to accept logs from (I'd prefer not to
use tcp wrappers)?

Thanks again,
Ryan

>>>Bill Nash <billn@billn.net> 03/31 10:15 am >>> 
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Ryan McCain wrote: 
 
>I'm starting to understand the syntax.  However, what part of this 
>statement tells syslog-ng to create a file for each host its receiving 
>logs from? 
 
>destination hosts { 
>file("/var/syslog/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$HOST-$FACILITY-$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"

>owner(bob) group(llamafood) perm(0755) dir_perm(0755)
create_dirs(yes)); 
 
 
If the file doesn't exist, it will be created. If the directory doesn't 
exist, you need the create_dirs directive. 
 
- billn