[syslog-ng] Before the basic 101 questions

[lance raymond]

What I thought of was to make each file unique;
ws = webserver;

ws1.domain.com-access_log
ws2.domain.com-access_log

and just write them each to an nfs share.

Not flaming the group at all, actually Bazsi your name shows up more than
any of my normal mail :)   But, I have tried twice with a reply or two, and
once conf files were sent up and/or shown the thread died.  I see some very
intersting questions, answers on the group and it would be nice to see some
of these things, but really, I am talking about a handful of webservers
(nothing fancy) just to write to a central log and it's not working.  The
basic syslog @server worked perfect, since the platform updates, just not
working, but I appreciate the reply.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Bazsi
>
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