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]