[gentoo-user] metalog replacement

[gentoo-user] metalog replacement

[Arnau Bria]

Hi,

I've been using metalog for a long time. I like its way of config where
you can set diff dirs for each service in an easy way:

Mail :

  facility = "mail"
  logdir   = "/var/log/mail"

But its syntax is not "standard":

metalog:
Nov 10 12:30:00 [postfix/smtpd]

syslog-ng
Nov 10 12:58:10 afrodita postfix/pipe[27313]

and awstats does not read postfix logs correctly (neither pflogsumm.pl)

So, two questions:

1.-) Does anyone know how to change metalog syntax? I asked it to
metalog ML, two weeks ago, but I had no reply... Forums are
unmaintened...

2.-) What other log service do u recommend? 

May I create diff dirs for each service with syslog-nd?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: [gentoo-user] metalog replacement

[Daniel Iliev]

Arnau Bria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using metalog for a long time. I like its way of config where
> you can set diff dirs for each service in an easy way:
>
> Mail :
>
>   facility = "mail"
>   logdir   = "/var/log/mail"
>
> But its syntax is not "standard":
>
> metalog:
> Nov 10 12:30:00 [postfix/smtpd]
>
> syslog-ng
> Nov 10 12:58:10 afrodita postfix/pipe[27313]
>
> and awstats does not read postfix logs correctly (neither pflogsumm.pl)
>
> So, two questions:
>
> 1.-) Does anyone know how to change metalog syntax? I asked it to
> metalog ML, two weeks ago, but I had no reply... Forums are
> unmaintened...
>
> 2.-) What other log service do u recommend? 
>
> May I create diff dirs for each service with syslog-nd?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>   

Yes, syslog-ng can separate logs. Perhaps, you may find useful this
short article:


http://ben.muppethouse.com/SYSLOG-DOC.html

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Daniel


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Re: [gentoo-user] metalog replacement

[Arnau Bria]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:29:03 +0200
Daniel Iliev wrote:

> Arnau Bria wrote:

[...]
> > 1.-) Does anyone know how to change metalog syntax? I asked it to
> > metalog ML, two weeks ago, but I had no reply... Forums are
> > unmaintened...

> > 2.-) What other log service do u recommend? 
> >
> > May I create diff dirs for each service with syslog-nd?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >   
> 
> Yes, syslog-ng can separate logs. Perhaps, you may find useful this
> short article:
> 
> 
> http://ben.muppethouse.com/SYSLOG-DOC.html
Thanks for the link. 
I'm going to read it, and, as I got no response for my first question,
going to uninstall metalog...

Cheers!


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Arnau Bria
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