mmm I'm not sure if I understood, but when you want to register any log to remote host you must to do as follow: mail.* @10.0.1.1 The example above is for register any mail logs into mail to remote host with 10.0.1.1 ip address. 2008/11/22 Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org>: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Trying to figure out if there's a way to get syslog.conf to direct >>> remote logging from a wireless access point to log to a separate file >>> instead of the main syslog and can't figure out how that could be done >>> from man syslog.conf (or man 2/3 of syslog) >>> >>> this clearly doesn't work >>> >>> 192.168.1.251.* /var/log/WAP-2.log >>> >>> which according to the man page, makes sense since this the IP address >>> is not a facility. >>> >>> Is there a way to do this that I am missing? >> >> The stock syslog package can't do this. You need rsyslog to make this >> happen. You can set up various templates and filters based on the log >> file information also. See >> >> http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2007/12/31/centralized-logging-with-centos-and-rsyslog/ >> for a brief walkthrough on the basics. > > In RPMforge we have backported rsyslog packages from RHEL5 to RHEL4. In this > case version 2.0.0-11, but when RHEL5.3 is released (or security updates are > released) I am commited to release them for RHEL4. > > -- > -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: L.I. Ricardo D. Carrillo Sánchez :: Security Specialist :: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico :: :: Ciudad Universitaria , D.F. Mex :: e-mail prim.: davxoc at gmai dot com :: e-mail secu.: davxoc at hotmail dot com :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::