On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 18:33 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 18:21, Ken Schneider wrote:
<RANT> Another one of those "better" updates to a program (syslog) that used to be fairly easy to configure and now requires six programing classes to understand the conf syntax. This is sure to win over a hole slew of windows converts isn't it. What the f**k does this provide that is any better than plain old syslog?
syslog-ng is supposed to allow you to create/write your own filters (if you know "c" programming that is). But whether or not is does depends on whether or not you can define your own facility/level which I cannot see how. And if you can't why change something that just plain works? </RANT>
I'm with you on that one! The documentation looks pretty detailed and is probably quite complete, but using it is like learning to speak English by reading a dictionary -- lots of disconnected facts.
As Anders suggested, vi /etc/sysconfig/syslog and change the appropiate line to allow network logging. Look at line 18 (example) and apply to line 20. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge