change to syslog to allow specifying prot to send to..
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Fri Apr 7 19:53:14 UTC 2006
Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>> Does anyone think that this would be useful?
>>
>> the syslog.conf line would look like:
>>
>>
>> *.* @logger.mynet.com:823
>
>
> Off the top of my head, there are two scenarios that I see this
> useful in:
> - Forwarding log messages to a secure syslog server, on a non-
> privileged port (I think everyone agrees that reducing the number of
> root-run services is a good thing).
> - Logging to a remote syslog over a local port, forwarded over an ssh
> tunnel (To an off-site centralized logging server, for example),
> while still having local logging enabled.
>
> I have been looking for this type of functionality for a little while
> now. I was about to look into coding it. Thanks! :)
the first part of the patch is not required.... Included by accident.
>
> Andy
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