How to use syslog-ng to collect logs from remote Linux machines Your email has been sent Jack Wallen walks you through the process of setting up a centralized Linux log server using syslog-ng. Let’s ...

Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

In this project, students will learn the basics of syslog analysis on Linux systems. Syslog is a standard logging protocol used to collect and store log messages from various system processes and ...

Sending syslog from Linux systems into Graylog The two most popular syslog deamons (the programs that run in the background to accept and write or forward logs) are rsyslog and syslog-ng. One of these ...

A centralized syslog server was one of the first true SysAdmin tasks that I was given as a Linux Administrator way back in 1997. My boss at the time wanted to pull in log files from various appliances ...

Writing some messages to multiple locations is a pretty normal thing in all UNIX / Linux syslog configurations, so I would just leave it alone. You're not going to gain much of anything for all the ...