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Re: central logging to a database

From: Jean-Paul Blaquiere <jeanpaul(at)blaquiere.id.au>
Date: Wed Jul 04 2007 - 20:30:02 EDT

> On Jul 04, Martin Marcher illuminated :

> i'd like to stay with syslog (or a software capable of providing
> syslog like capabilities) so that i don't have to care about every
> package.
>

syslog-ng is your friend.
it will log to mysql:
http://vermeer.org/docs/1

it does its network traffic via tcp, not udp too.

'apt-get install syslog-ng' in it's default config is a drop in replacement for sysklogd. So you can install it and then migrate to centralised logging, and database backed logging at your leisure.

./jp

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