[CentOS] remote syslog question

[fred smith]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 02:30:16AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

oh, now I understand. I didn't know what "ost-column" meant. thanks.




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