Re: syslog recommendations?

[Michael Shuler <michael@pbandjelly.org>]

On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of
> like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let
> me, say, aggregate logs from lots of different boxes and maybe even do
> other sorts of cool things (find patterns, etc).

I am not aware of a single package that will do all that you want, but a
combination of a few packages should get you there.  I use syslog-ng for
aggregating logs from many servers, and I think it far surpasses the
standard udp syslog daemon for reliability.  Running logcheck and/or
logtool on the syslog server to parse the raw logs will get you pattern
matching and various reporting possibilities.

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Kind Regards,
Michael Shuler