[syslog-ng] connecting to syslog-ng

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 12:27 +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:

> Alexander Clouter <ac56 at soas.ac.uk> [20060923 11:07:14 +0100]:
> > 
> > [snipped]
> >  
> > > >Is this what you are after?  syslog-ng would still run on the logging box 
> > > >but you would broadcast to multicast groups your streams.
> > > 
> > > This sounds pretty good! ...I will check with my folks and then might begin
> > > to grovel ...or to contribute ;-)
> > > 
> > Its actually rather straight forward to do and its only something I have not 
> > done yet as the logging cluster is not being extensively used yet.  If 
> > someone else has a use for it then I'll get around to it sooner rather than 
> > later.
> > 
> > However if you cannot wait it seems someone has made a multicast enabled 
> > netcat:
> > 
> > http://code.google.com/p/mnc/
> > 
> > You will be able to use this to do something very similar, it also says that 
> > it works under windoze aswell.
> > 
> Well I got around to writing my perl script to do this:
> 
> http://www.digriz.org.uk/syslog-mc
> 
> Everything should be self explanatory, its rather verbose at the top of the
> file.  Code is licenced under the GPL licence and probably would be suitable 
> to become a 'contrib' part of syslog-ng if Balazs approves :)
> 
> Any problems do email me but really its just a case of typing:
> 
> $ ./syslog-mc 239.194.253.8 5514
> 
> Remember if you are sending syslog messages to a port number below 1024 you
> will need to run the script as root.

Thanks for your contribution. I added it to the contrib directory.

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Bazsi