How to use a different 'messages' log file

Hi 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. I expect it can be done by mounting /var/log over NFS, but how safe/secure would this be? Is there a better way? Thanks, Andrew