[plug] server load spikes, syslog options

[Craig Ringer]

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 09:35, James Devenish wrote:

> Bill probably has a specific reason for wanting to replicate MySQL
> databases, but syslog daemons generally include a simpler network
> logging facility anyway (i.e., a 'loghost ' feature is usually included
> with vendors' own syslogds, as well as third-party replacements such as
> syslog-ng).

With the syslog included in most Linux distros, a log line like:

*.warn					@loghost

will do the trick nicely.

Craig Ringer