[CentOS] remote syslog question

[Reindl Harald]

Am 03.12.2011 01:05, schrieb fred smith:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:36:48AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 03.12.2011 00:04, schrieb fred smith:
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so
>>> I figured I'd ask you guys:
>>>
>>> I've got my router using syslog on my centos box to log the router's
>>> system events. Works fine.
>>>
>>> however, it mixes 'em into /var/log/messages along with the messages
>>> from the Centos box itself.
>>
>> this is why the ost-column exists
>>
> 
> Could I get you to elaborate on that, please?

what do you think why you have in every line the hostname?
it's designed for log the messages of more than one machine

without this the host-column would make no sense if its always the local machine

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