Syslog Host Separation

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Tue Sep 13 19:33:40 UTC 2005


On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:20:29PM -0500, Nathaniel Hall wrote:
> I have a central syslog server using the base syslog implementation. Nothing 
> special. I was wondering if it is possible to separate out the logs based on 
> the host using the syslog.conf file. I have had problems with SyslogNG so I 
> would like to keep it to standard syslog.
>  Here is how I would like to have it separated:
>  /var/log/server1/messages
> /var/log/server1/secure
>  /var/log/server2/messages
> /var/log/server2/secure

I don't think that there is any way to do that with the standard syslog.
We're doing it with syslog-ng here.

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