Re: Log Files

[Will Lowe <harpo@udlug.org>]

> I want to centralize all the logs the server generates onto the workstation,
> and use a program that will go through these logs and report connection
> attempts and other activity of that sort.

Syslog does this for you, if you specify a host with the @ : 

daemon.* 					@loghost

Will send all of the daemon logs to the "loghost" machine.  "man
syslog.conf" for more. 

For scanners, perl and grep seem to work best. 

                     					Will

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