[CentOS] remote syslog question

[fred smith]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 06:21:25PM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 03.12.2011 00:04, schrieb fred smith:
> > 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.
> > 
> > is there a way to separate them into itsown (set of??) files? So far
> > I've not come up with anything.
> 
> Every syslog daemon I know of (even good old syslogd classic) is able
> to direct messages to different files depending on their facility and
> priority. Most routers send their messages with one of the "local"
> facilities (local0 .. local7), though it's frequently neither
> documented nor configurable, at least with the cheap consumer grade
> models. OTOH, on a typical CentOS system little else uses the local*
> facility. So chances are if you configure your syslog daemon to log
> all of the local* facilities to a file /var/log/router and not to
> /var/log/messages you'll end up with just the router messages in
> /var/log/router.
> 
> HTH

thanks, Tilman, it may well be of help. I'll check that out.


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