Question: Syslogd redirect to more than one host?

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 18 13:17:21 UTC 2006


On Thursday 17 August 2006 00:29, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 10:49 am, Chanti Kain wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just checked in because of a question one of the pro can tell me.
> > I am using syslogd to redirect from an embedded Linux Box any syslog msg.
> > I checked the faq and the hints.. and found that the syntax is linke this:
> > 
> > syslogd -L -R 192.168.0.1    # to send it to local msg and to the host with
> > the IP
> > 
> > that is working fine. 
> > 
> > But I would like to send the msg to more than one host!
> > 
> > Is this possible and if not.... what do I have to dig out to make it run?
> > 
> > I did not check for the sources...but I do not hesitate to compile it by my
> > own....
> > 
> > any advices ?
> 
> I think you're asking for a new feature.

I replaced syslogd by combination of
http://smarden.org/runit/
and
http://smarden.org/socklog/

It is almost trivial to arrange runit's svlogd to send output
to arbitrary number of remote hosts.

If built agains dietlibc, these tools will also be much smaller than syslogd.
--
vda



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