Syslogd - Different Files

[Laurence Mayer]

This sends the logs of local and remote machines to both the 
/var/log/message AND TO /var/log/remote.

So it actually duplicates /var/log/messages.

Does this work in your environment?

Can you clarify the -a IP1/mask1 etc?

Thanks
Laurence


Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> I have read the man pages:
>>
>> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syslog.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE> 
>>
>>
>> However it is very confusing what exactly to add to the syslog.conf 
>> file. I have tried numerous variations but still no success.
> 
> example on serwer blah.AAA.com
> 
> +blah.AAA.com
> *.*                                             -/var/log/messages
> *.*                                             -/dev/ttyvb
> *.*                                             @blah2.BBB.com
> -blah.AAA.com
> *.*                                             -/var/log/remote
> 
> 
> this will log all OWN log to /var/log/messages, 12-th console and to 
> server @blah2.BBB.com
> 
> and will log all incoming messages from other hosts to /var/log/remote
> 
> of course - in rc.conf don't forget to add
> 
> syslogd_flags="-a IP1/mask1 -a IP2/mask2 ...."