tibo <bartol_78SPAMSUXXX@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Madhur Ahuja" <ef@df.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 2spo7hF1nmcpvU2@uni-berlin.de...
>> tibo <bartol_78SPAMSUXXX@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> "Madhur Ahuja" <ef@df.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
>>> 2so622F1ndm99U1@uni-berlin.de...
>>>> tibo <bartol_78SPAMSUXXX@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hello !
>>>>>
>>>>> I've understood how to send logs to another machine on the client
>>>>> machine. Something like :
>>>>>
>>>>> facility.level @hostname
>>>>>
>>>>> hostname being the name of the server machine receiving the logs.
>>>>>
>>>>> But what I don't understand, is where on the server do I specify
>>>>> the way I receive these logs ?
>>>>
>>>> man syslog.conf
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK. Show me in the manpage where it's written.
>>
>> You need a syslogd server running on the remote machine. I think on
>> the remote machine you can configure logging, the same way as you
>> would do on the local machine i.e. by configuring /etc/syslog.conf.
>>
>> Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Yep it's right. But it's not clear at all in the manpage. They only
> talk about the client side, maybe they think it's obvious.
>
> It appears that you indeed configure it as if you were receiving
> local logs. Everything (local and network) go into the same file, and
> you have to make the difference between local logs and network logs
> with string editors.
> So in the /etc/syslog.conf, you can't direct logs coming from a
> certain machine to a certain file, and others logs coming from
> another machine to another file.
>


Thanks for the clarification tibo!

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