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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:37:37 +0100
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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
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Oracle, and many more), email alerting, fully configurable output formats=20
(including high-precision timestamps), the ability to filter on any part of=
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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=
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and able to work with the same configuration file syntax."
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Regards,
Mick
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