Re: suslog alternate log file

[wintermutecx at gmail.com (Dave)]

On 2/27/06, Keith Morse <kgmorse@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> > I have a cisco router sending syslog messages to a linux server. I've
> > been looking around on how to log those into a separate file and I've
> > run across using local7 in various howtos. It looks like you can have
> > 8 different local log settings, but I can't seem to find any docs on
> > how to set those up. Anyone have a howto on that?
> >
>
> My best suggestion is to take a look at syslog-ng for parsing this out.
> Takes a bit to get the syntax right but well worth it.

 Thanks, I'll take a look at that when I get some time Right now I'm
just trying to lower the noise in the syslog so I can monitor stuff
with tail.