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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Sysloggers
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:15:15
Message-Id: 877hz82u0c.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > Perhaps rsyslog?
4 >
5 > http://www.rsyslog.com
6 > ========================================
7 > "Among others, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable
8 > syslog over TCP, SSL, TLS and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL,
9 > Oracle, and many more), email alerting, fully configurable output formats
10 > (including high-precision timestamps), the ability to filter on any part of
11 > the syslog message, on-the-wire message compression, and the ability to
12 > convert text files to syslog. It is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd
13 > and able to work with the same configuration file syntax."
14 > ========================================
15 >
16 > It's in portage.
17
18 And I can say as an rsyslog user...of some mnths, that even if you
19 don't need all those refinements, for just basic use it just like
20 syslog and doesn't require learning yet another config syntax like
21 syslog-ng does.