[syslog-ng]Pix problem

[Paolo Supino]

Hi 

 Though not syslog-ng specific I feel I have to comment: 
The loghost statement in Solaris isn't a hack, but lost art of mid 
1980s BCPs (in the days that BSD was the "real" thing): Each server had
the role name attached to the word host. So you got: loghost, mailhost,
boothost, localhost (yes, localhost) etc ... 
 In order to exploit the loghost statement in Solaris you need to
change the /etc/hosts file on each solaris system because this where
the loghost is defined (usually as an alias to localhost) and the name
resolving is set to: "file dns" (in /etc/nsswitch.conf).
  


Paolo 
  

--- 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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