which syslog??? (rsyslog? syslog-ng? or default?)

[krad]

On 7 January 2011 22:13, Gary Gatten <Ggatten at waddell.com> wrote:

> PS: rsyslog can use standard syslog.conf entries, or it has extensions that
> enable more cool stuff.
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> G
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> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:
> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Aleksandr Miroslav
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 3:09 PM
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> Subject: which syslog??? (rsyslog? syslog-ng? or default?)
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> I have some boxes (about 40) that I was tasked with creating a
> centralized logging infrastructure for. I see in ports that we have
> several different versions of rsyslog, and syslog-ng.
>
> Is there any reason to use one or the other? Or should I just use the
> syslog that come with the base OS?
>
> thanks,
> Alex
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Ive used syslog-ng for central logging in the past. It support tcp,
encryption and logging to a db. To be honest though the most useful feature
was that you can expand log files paths to include the date and hostname.
This makes backing up of the files far more efficient as you dont have to
use newsyslog to rotate them, which is a good thing for backups especially
if you use rsync