[syslog-ng]Pix problem

Bill Nash billn at bacchus.billn.net
Wed Jan 4 00:13:36 CET 2006


Oh, that is sneaky, and so blaringly obvious of a hack as to be 
patentable. I bet it is. =)

- billn

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:52:46 PST, Bill Nash said:
>
>> Each individual device must be configured to send it's traffic to the
>> syslog server. I am unaware of any platform that is capable of
>> automatically determining where it's logging should go, and sending it
>> along accordingly.
>
> For what it's worth, Solaris boxes have an interesting hack, where they
> basically route a copy of all syslog output to whatever 'loghost' resolves
> to.  So all you do is create a CNAME tha aliases 'loghost.your.domain' to
> the name of your logserver, and you're done. ;)
>


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