m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok, here's one: I'm having a problem with syslogd - due to the upper heirarchy, we've started logging our (*yuck*) Windows servers to our centralized logging server, and so far, the other admin hasn't managed to make WinBlows less than maximum verbosity. I know I can do filtering with syslog-ng and rsyslog, but 5.5 has syslogd. Now, I *thought* I heard one or the other of those other two was coming in, but thought it would be in CentOS 5.x; can anyone tell me a) if the change is coming, b) which of the two it'll be, and c) will it be in 5.6 or 6?
rsyslog is available with CentOS 5 - but not installed by default.
You can easily switch to rsyslog by doing:
yum install rsyslog chkconfig syslog off chkconfig rsyslog on /etc/init.d/syslog stop /etc/init.d/rsyslog start
The default rsyslog config should do that same as the default config settings for syslog
I believe RHEL6/CentOS6 uses rsyslog by default
James Pearson