Subject: Re: syslog remote logging / -h
From: Martin Schulze (joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 21:10:26 CEST
macker wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Not sure the current statuf of sysklogd's maintenance, but figured i'd
> send an e-mail anyways...
>
> Was trying to figure out how to do remote log proxying (i.e. host1 ->
> host2 -> host3).. looked through the man pages, then downloaded source
> (planning to patch it to enable this behavior) when i found the comment in
> readme.1st about the -h option.
>
> it occurred to me, that had I seen it in the man page, it would've been
> much faster... so, in the next release (if there is one), if you could
> mention it in the man page, would be nice..
Open your eyes, it is already:
-h By default syslogd will not forward messages it
receives from remote hosts. Specifying this switch
on the command line will cause the log daemon to
forward any remote messages it receives to forward-
ing hosts which have been defined.
-- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum Oldenburger LinuxTag 2000 http://oldenburger.linuxtage.de/
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