[CentOS] remote syslog question

Sat Dec 3 11:19:34 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Vreme: 12/03/2011 03:35 AM, Corey Henderson piše:
>>> I am in professional wireless business. My solution was to deinstall
>>> syslog and install syslog-ng, it's supports separation based on IP,
>>> name, etc..
>>
>> thanks. I was hoping for some kind of hack so I wouldn't need to do that.
>>
>
> For what it's worth, you can replace sysklogd with "rsyslog", which has
> compatible configuration, so you don't need to change much in the conf file.
>
> An example for logging based on name:
>
> http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/Log_Router_syslog_with_Dynamic_File_Names
>
> It's a base centos package, so you can just "yum install rsyslog"
>

Well, this is embarrassing, but when Corey posted about rsyslog my light 
bulb turned on and I actually checked what I run.

I actually run rsyslog, not the syslog-ng. It was installed about a year 
ago, and I know I looked at both packages, but... no excuse really for 
my mistake.

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