[Sunhelp] Setup syslog entries to another host?

[Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk]

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jmb wrote:
>I maybe wrong....but my first idea would be to make a symbolic link so
>syslog on the localhost would be a kind of an alias of syslog on the
>remote host.
>Can it work that way?

Yes, you CAN do that. But, what you're actually doing is just making sure
that the syslog CONFIGURATION is the same on the two machines. It won't
actually send the entries to the other machine. I also would have thought it
a bad idea to have a syslog.conf as an NFS link. What happens if your 
destination goes down, or the network fails on the source - no messages! =8-o

If you want to make the syslog configurations the same, the best method I know
is a small cron job on the 'slave' machines that sucks the file from the 
'master' 
machine and then restarts syslogd. You can, of course, add all kinds of frills, 
e.g.
not restarting syslogd if syslog.conf wasn't changed.

If you want to send the syslog output to another host, just edit 
/etc/inet/hosts, 
(this is the file that /etc/hosts points to - or at least on Solaris 2.6 and 
previous).
Move the alias 'loghost' to the machine that you want to receive the log 
entries,
it'll probably be attached to 127.0.0.1 by default. We've redirected outputs 
from
various Suns and IBM kit to one Sun for processing here, so I'm pretty sure that
this is the correct way.

Keep at it - ain't Unix wonderful?

Regards

Bob Cross, Systems Programmer, Scottish & Newcastle plc
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