Rsyslog is the enhanced syslogd for Linux and Unix, extending the good syslog-ng.
If you use smartmontools to monitor your disks with smartd, you can see that your logs are filled with too many information related to your disks. The first solution is to tell smartd to send messages into a local facility (1-7 are available) and then in syslog-ng write all messages sent to that facility into file smartd.log. It's a good solution, as long as this facility is not used for something else.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Logging iptables messages with rsyslog
Rsyslog is the enhanced syslogd for Linux and Unix, extending the good syslog-ng.
If you use netfilter's iptables, you may know that a target could be LOG (with a prefix that can be configured) sending detailed information in the kernel log (since netfilter runs in the kernel). Rsyslog and syslog-ng regularily read the kernel log and save it to kern.log (among others).
If you use netfilter's iptables, you may know that a target could be LOG (with a prefix that can be configured) sending detailed information in the kernel log (since netfilter runs in the kernel). Rsyslog and syslog-ng regularily read the kernel log and save it to kern.log (among others).
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