[syslog-ng] Before the basic 101 questions

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 23:25 -0400, lance raymond wrote:
> ok, I have tried 2ce (even using this list) and still have problems
> that just get dropped by the wayside, so resorting to a more basic
> approach.  So with that, I have 8 ubunutu servers all running apache
> and I wish/need to have a place for all the logs to reside.    I tried
> syslog-ng with hand updating the conf files, even tried using webmin
> to build, still can't get it to start, etc.
> 
> So how about feedback on this.  If all the webservers share an nfs
> mount for the web images, what if I change the log's to just point to
> those mounts and write them there?
> 
> I don't know if syslog-ng streams them, waits till x size then copies
> them over, but since I can't get it working, figured the users/group
> here might say sure, we've seen a few posts by you, and yea, just do
> that, or have some really basic ideas as to why, maybe a few sample
> config's as all the help etc. I have yet to see a working config (both
> server and client) to try to undserstand why there are problems.

NFS does not ensure atomic updates if there are multiple clients writing
to the same file. 

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Bazsi