On Tuesday 12 April 2022 at 13:32:40, Paul Claridge wrote: > Did you find the info on loggly.com? I found https://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/centralizing-apache-logs/ and it was essentially a summary of the two mechanisms I had already found elsewhere and posted in my original question - telling rsyslog to track file contents written by Apache, or using logger in a CustomLog definition. > Not sure if it covers precisely your requirements. They look like they would work for me, however I regard them as "workarounds" and wanted to see whether anyone knew of a way to do it natively in Apache. I'm surprised that it appears not to be possible, but thanks to everyone for their responses so far. Antony. > On 12 Apr 2022, at 11:59, Marc <Marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> i went through this issue the hard way > >> > >> Urgh - thanks for the comprehensive reply. > >> > >>> there does not seem to be anything at all as apache seems to be all > >>> file related > >> > >> I wonder why mod_syslog has not been made more generic? > >> > >>> redirecting to logger just does not work. > >>> > >>> i wrote a python script that uses sockets (assuming linux, freebsd etc) > >> > >> Yes, I'm on Linux - thanks for the script, and for the comments re > >> logger etc. > >> > >> *If anyone else has a suggestion for how Apache can log to syslog, I'm > >> still interested in other possible ways to achieve it!* > > > > I have been asking something similar a while ago, logggin to something > > like influx. I know how to redirect syslog to influx. So if I can > > redirect eg ip's and 2XX/4XX to syslog, that would be very interesting. -- Please apologise my errors, since I have a very small device. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx