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[logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 06 2007 03:42PM
Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards hq adiscon com) (2 replies)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 07 2007 07:00PM
Andreux Fort ($B$"$s$I$j$e!<(B) (afort choqolat org) (1 replies)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 07 2007 10:19PM
Anton Chuvakin (anton chuvakin org)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 06 2007 06:31PM
Marcin Antkiewicz (loganalysis kajtek org) (1 replies)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 06 2007 09:13PM
Marcus J. Ranum (mjr ranum com) (2 replies)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 07 2007 11:56AM
Greg Dotoli (gldotoli yahoo com)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 07 2007 10:30AM
Mordechai T. Abzug (morty frakir org) (2 replies)
RE: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 10 2007 09:16AM
Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards hq adiscon com) (1 replies)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 11 2007 05:19PM
Bennett Todd (bet rahul net)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 07 2007 05:52PM
David Corlette (dcorlette novell com) (1 replies)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 11 2007 12:56PM
Balazs Scheidler (bazsi balabit hu) (2 replies)
Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 13 2007 03:04AM
David Corlette (dcorlette novell com) (1 replies)
So, if I'm on an airplane trying to work out how to write a syslog-ng config file I should what... guess?

You need to include a decent manpage with the product as it ships, isn't that obvious?

BTW, a Google search for "syslog-ng.conf" doesn't show the URL you mention on the first page of results - are you blocking index robots?

>>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 8:56 AM, in message
<1189515412.8282.34.camel (at) bzorp (dot) bala [email concealed]bit>, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi (at) balabit (dot) hu [email concealed]>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:52 -0400, David Corlette wrote:
>> Actually, I hate the syslog-ng format. It's poorly documented and exampled,
> try finding any references on how to set it up to forward messages to another
> remote syslog daemon.
>>
>> Here's the relevant manpage section:
>>
>> DESTINATIONS
>> Destinations can be created using the destination keyword:
>> destination <destname> { destdriver params; destdriver params; ... ; };
>> * udp <ip>,<port> - network destination using the UDP protocol
>>
>> Here's what a reasonable person would guess that means:
>
> Please don't use the manpage. This message is again an incentive to
> remove it altogether. (it was originally contributed but is not
> maintained anymore).
>
> The "official" syslog-ng documentation is available at:
>
> http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/
>
> It contains much more information and examples. You can find the docs in
> HTML or PDF there.

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Re: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 13 2007 01:43PM
Balazs Scheidler (bazsi balabit hu) (1 replies)
RE: [logs] syslog config file format poll Sep 14 2007 06:12AM
Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards hq adiscon com)
[logs] Syslog - monitoring the bigger picture Sep 12 2007 07:33PM
Mervin Pearce [SACS] (mervin sacs co za) (1 replies)
Re: [logs] Syslog - monitoring the bigger picture Sep 13 2007 06:10PM
Anton Chuvakin (anton chuvakin org) (1 replies)
RE: [logs] Syslog - monitoring the bigger picture Sep 13 2007 11:11PM
Tina Bird (tbird precision-guesswork com) (1 replies)
Re: [logs] Syslog - monitoring the bigger picture Sep 14 2007 06:25PM
Anton Chuvakin (anton chuvakin org) (1 replies)
RE: [logs] Syslog - monitoring the bigger picture Sep 14 2007 06:52PM
Tina Bird (tbird precision-guesswork com) (1 replies)
RE: [logs] Syslog - monitoring the bigger picture Sep 14 2007 08:10PM
David Corlette (dcorlette novell com) (2 replies)
Re: [logs] Syslog - monitoring the bigger picture Sep 15 2007 07:51AM
Tom Le (dottom gmail com)
RE: [logs] Syslog - monitoring the bigger picture Sep 14 2007 09:29PM
Tina Bird (tbird precision-guesswork com) (1 replies)
RE: [logs] Syslog - monitoring the bigger picture Sep 15 2007 03:38AM
David Corlette (dcorlette novell com)


 

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