[SunHELP] central syslog server problem

[Jarrett Carver]

You need something like syslog-ng. The built in Syslog only let's you sort 
by facility/priority. syslog-ng allows sorting by source hostname/IP, 
program name, etc...

http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/


Jarrett Carver           http://www.geocities.com/solarboyz1
solarboyz1 at hotmail.com   Unix/NT Systems Administrator
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>From: Prashant Desai <pressy_sun at yahoo.com>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>CC: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
>Subject: [SunHELP] central syslog server problem Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 
>05:51:08 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hi all
>
>
>   i have sucessfully configured a central syslog
>server
>which is receiving logs from around 20-25 servers
>running solaris & redhat Linux ,
>
>   now the problem is all the logs are coming to the
>same file respective to the type of logs like all the
>mail logs are going to /var/log/maillog on logserver
>all the login/logouts in /var/log/messages ,
>
>   but i want to log these logs to files in different
>dirs depending on the hostnames or ipaddress of the
>clients from which logs are coming
>
>   is this possible ??? how ? any pointers ????
>
>
>regards
>Prashant
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