From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MH3lQ-0005WH-N6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:37:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1345EE0350; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:37:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f220.google.com (mail-ew0-f220.google.com [209.85.219.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AA1E0350 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy20 with SMTP id 20so743310ewy.34 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:37:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=UFJLVa+VsXotMsLir6W9jh06FvVCPvAjQGEr9XqTdzs=; b=W5Ffb+9IccuA7dAt8HGpMmX4LjZfNWJHLRTauMOcKUJmpWomP/artBrux5n9trFv2N 5DtAAfZHjG7pOJGRWw73YQ7J8SSdAd+ZI1U0s51Oyb8aV6JAyUnNi1fm8iO4OLJygHc7 6MddaPM3GJ+0F7qZ3LzaOop7dlWWhHDvAg+/g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Y70hhjjdENKCaawNr2i67j0okCvuSBoFl0OCmM9UsbzkyR9nbfe8XMwiUuqEyuIFQZ dn9a/4wP3SeSjuBpHiiLfsRwaFQsV/k72ylb50EYj2avBbW+5OD6pLUSC6AaYj48YriQ lPWzD2YMhg4BjPzXHnQkqBnejIkR8GdTHIgSo= Received: by 10.210.86.1 with SMTP id j1mr875200ebb.29.1245278270187; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:37:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm101018eya.39.2009.06.17.15.37.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:37:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:37:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200906162249.01707.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20090617224838.7053897c@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <200906180017.35063.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906180017.35063.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart13115132.6FdO4zF7Sy"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906172337.47986.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 181e05b3-07c7-4c11-9ac7-8a572d6cf31e X-Archives-Hash: 6d610a7172d1b96f7cc0fd04078ba11a --nextPart13115132.6FdO4zF7Sy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 23:48:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:31:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I can't argue with that. I just get a little paranoid about auth logs > > > being sent (with credentials) over partially-open networks, hence the > > > attraction of encrypted traffic > > > > What about using an SSH tunnel? > > I thought about that - people other than me set up most of the machines a= nd > this may or may not be easy for them to do in practice. I'm sure you've > seen how easy it is for otherwise smart people to royally screw up anythi= ng > with ssh in it's name... > > Just keeping my options open, maybe there's something better suited to wh= at > I need than vanilla syslog-ng Perhaps rsyslog? http://www.rsyslog.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D "Among others, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable=20 syslog over TCP, SSL, TLS and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL= ,=20 Oracle, and many more), email alerting, fully configurable output formats=20 (including high-precision timestamps), the ability to filter on any part of= =20 the syslog message, on-the-wire message compression, and the ability to=20 convert text files to syslog. It is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd= =20 and able to work with the same configuration file syntax." =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D It's in portage. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart13115132.6FdO4zF7Sy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAko5cDsACgkQVTDTR3kpaLa7YACgj/oRQptYaF1zHu2SIM0dgbP3 HgIAnAxtdBZc5pKgYxBNSS6/4OGRqsD/ =oXeb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart13115132.6FdO4zF7Sy--