[plug] Syslog daemons

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Luke Dudney wrote:

> Does anyone know of a syslog daemon that has the ability to log remote 
> incoming syslog messages into separate files dependant upon the source 
> address of the message?
> That is, I want a central syslog server for a large number of devices to 
> keep a different log file for each device.

I'd say it's easier to get all devices to log to server a.b.c.d on say 
local5 then at the server split all the local5 entries into a differnt 
file.  Then postprocess that file into seperate files for each source.

I do just this for about 30 HP printers.


Yours Tony.

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