[syslog-ng] syslog-ng and log4j

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:30 +0000, Sigurður Bjarnason wrote:
> Hi All
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> My first time on this list so be gentle J
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> I have questions about syslog-ng and log4j.
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> I am using syslog-ng as central server with syslog-ng on clients
> forwarding logs to the central server and I have notice that logs from
> java ( log4j ) are being dropped under heavy load, so I did some
> investigating and found out that log4j only send on UDP rather then
> TCP like all other logs .
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> Is it possible to get log4j to send logs over TCP by sending logs from
> java to socket or otherwise, I would  guess that log4j is not capable
> of sending logs to TCP since I have tried to take the udp section out
> of the syslog-ng config and then no logs are received from java L
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> Can please someone tell me what my options are here, I really need to
> get logs from java over to the central server without this drop since
> these are the most critical logs on my system .

 
Can you configure log4j to send messages to a local syslog-ng process
and then have that process send out messages via TCP?


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Bazsi