I'm setting up a linux network with one server and 6 clients connecting to it via NIS and NFS (all SuSE 7.0). Is it possible to log all of the messages that would normally be written to the clients' "/var/log/messages" to the server's /var/log/messages file.
This file is created c.q. writen to by syslogd, which receives the messages from the applications. Look at 'man syslog.conf' to learn howto send the messages to another machine (hint: @) and look at 'man syslogd' to learn howto accept remote messages (hint: option -r).
I expect it can be done by mounting /var/log over NFS, but how safe/secure would this be? Is there a better way?
Forget NFS. It's not save enough for log messages. Use syslogd, it is installed and you're already using it. Regards, Cees.