Remote Syslog (was Re: Wireless)

[ccb at kukla.tiac.net (Charles C. Bennett, Jr.)]

> (A quick check with man shows that the linux syslogd reads  from  the
> standard  syslog=514/udp  port,  implying  that  it is indeed able to
> accept messages from remote clients.  But the man  pages  for  things
> like openlog don't contain any clues about how a client program sends
> a message to a remote syslogd. So it looks like this would have to be
> discovered  and  documented for the above scheme to be usable.

The ability to log remotely is covered at the system level on the
logging client.  Check the syslog.conf manpage for more details.


ccb


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