Blog entries tagged remote syslog http://www.tech-diary.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:25:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.tech-diary.com/remote-syslog.html <p>syslog is the standard system logging tool on most flavors of unix.&nbsp; It stores records of system events in a number of user-defined files.&nbsp; On FreeBSD, these files live by default in /var/log.&nbsp; syslog has a configuration file, /etc/syslog.conf, that determines which file to log system events.</p><br/><p>What a lot of people don't know is that syslog can send events to a remote syslog server.&nbsp; This means you can have all of your logs from multiple machines stored on a single hoRead More... Brad Waite Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:05:04 +0100 system administration remote syslog freebsd