[gentoo-user] OT - Tutorial for configuring syslog-ng?

[gentoo-user] OT - Tutorial for configuring syslog-ng?

[Michael Sullivan]

Is there a tutorial or a guide or something for configuring syslog-ng,
preferrably with examples?  I want to alter my default syslog-ng.conf to
filter mail logs to another file, but the man page doesn't make much
sense to me, and I couldn't find anything online that had examples to
show what exactly I needed to do...

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Tutorial for configuring syslog-ng?

[Mark Shields]

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On 11/2/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a tutorial or a guide or something for configuring syslog-ng,
> preferrably with examples?  I want to alter my default syslog-ng.conf to
> filter mail logs to another file, but the man page doesn't make much
> sense to me, and I couldn't find anything online that had examples to
> show what exactly I needed to do...
>
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

destination mail { file("/var/log/mail.log"); };

That should filter your mail logs.  It's taken from the Gentoo Security
Handbook:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?part=1&chap=3#doc_chap4
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[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Tutorial for configuring syslog-ng?

[Stefan Wimmer]

* Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> [2006-11-02 17:51] :
>  Is there a tutorial or a guide or something for configuring syslog-ng,
>  preferrably with examples?  I want to alter my default syslog-ng.conf to
>  filter mail logs to another file, but the man page doesn't make much
>  sense to me, and I couldn't find anything online that had examples to
>  show what exactly I needed to do...

Google throws up this on first place:

  http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html

This should do it ...

HTH
swimmer

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Tutorial for configuring syslog-ng?

[Greg Bur]

On 11/2/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> Is there a tutorial or a guide or something for configuring syslog-ng,
> preferrably with examples?  I want to alter my default syslog-ng.conf to
> filter mail logs to another file, but the man page doesn't make much
> sense to me, and I couldn't find anything online that had examples to
> show what exactly I needed to do...

http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/syslog-ng.php
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