[syslog-ng] Xserve sending to Syslog-NG

[Bill Nash]

I think Will left out the answer you were after. If the Xserve is doing 
UDP transport, and syslog-ng goes on vacation, the messages sent while 
syslog-ng is unavailable will be lost.

- billn

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, William Bell wrote:

> Yes the syslog feed off the xserve is most likely UDP based and it will just
> continue to stream syslog messages to the unresponsive destination. There
> may or may not be a way to setup a backup syslog server in the Xserve admin
> functions.
>
> WilliamB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu
> [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Ken Garland
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:30 PM
> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> Subject: [syslog-ng] Xserve sending to Syslog-NG
>
> I have a question regarding setting up an Xserve to send to our central log
> server. If the Syslog-NG server goes down, will the Xserve continuously
> retry to send the logs until the Syslog-NG server is available?
>
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