[syslog-ng] get destination(s) based on log facility and severity

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

Hello again,

I'd just like to give a gently nudge, hoping that somebody can
comment. Is it out of scope, or plain silly, or just boring :)

Cheers,

Dejan



On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:43:41PM +0200, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a kind of machinery which collects syslog logs from
> several hosts. Currently it works by sending a message using
> logger(1) to the given facility.severity and then looking up the
> message in log files in /var/log and a few other directories
> (using grep).
> 
> I'm looking for a more robust and faster way to discover the
> destination. Would that be possible with syslog-ng? And which is
> the optimal way to achieve that? An extra syslog-ng option? An
> extra binary? Or perhaps using logger(1)?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dejan
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