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A replacement for OS X's syslog utility
Authored by: thrig on Jul 20, '04 03:37:59PM

I have some notes on syslog-ng and the (many) limitations of the stock syslog daemon online:



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A replacement for OS X's syslog utility
Authored by: blakers on Jul 20, '04 04:14:03PM

nicely written up! ... where were you when I _needed_ you? ;-)

just fyi, i find that log mgmt/maintenance is much simpler/straightforwared using "logrotate" (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/logrotate).

question 4 you:

have you given any though to 'extracting'/sending syslogs from (single or multiple) chroot'd jails (e.g., BIND9 logging in a chroot) to a central/remote syslog-ng server?

richard



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