[TriLUG] Another Syslogd question

[Scott Morris]

> Is it possible to both have a machine write its logs to
> /var/log/messages AND to send them to a remote server (using straight-up
> syslog, NOT syslog-ng)?  I tried this in /etc/syslog.conf:
> 
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none
> /var/log/messages
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none
> @syslog.server.ca
> 
> and I don't think that works.  Any ideas?


it works for me. i do exactly that.
something like:

*.debug 	@192.168.1.1
*.crit;mail.debug	/var/adm/messages

solaris/aix/linux...

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