On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:19:51 -0500 "Jim Perrin" <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jan 13, 2008 9:59 PM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I recommend rsyslog! > > Well okay, now you've drawn me out! > > I've been playing with rsyslog recently in the hopes of creating the > 'one monitoring server to rule them all' with logging, nagios, ibm > director, etc. It seems the fedora/rh folks made a very good decision > in making rsyslog the default logger in fedora 8, but it works equally > well in centos5 as a drop in replacement for the sysklogd logger. In > addition to the usual logging you get by default in centos, rsyslog > also allows for log templating, regex filtering, alerts, tcp and udp > delivery, logging to database (mysql, but soon postgres) and sane > multi-host log handling. It's a very good competitor to syslog-ng, > without any of the dual licensing bits. It'll also soon have native > ssl handling for secure log transfer. It's very sexy. I second > Karanbir's recommendation to take a look at rsyslog. <grin> already downloaded. going to transfer to the web server and start reading through the setup docs as soon as Iron Eagle is over. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos