On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is a tool called logger which can write to syslog. >>
Yup. Nice little utility - nice of you to mention it. > > and one small thing to rememeber: KEEP AN EYE ON LOG FILE SIZE. +1 Need to size /var/log and keep it in a separate disk partition or a logical volume. logrotate does a nice job of cycling the logfiles. To compliance requirements, it is also necessary to ship the older log files to an archive *before* they get rotated :) > > and then there is rsyslog. Default in Debian. > I am currently investigating ways to coerce > Winblows boxens to write their logs to a rsyslog server > > will post results when I get to do that. > This post looks interesting and may be right up your alley. <http://www.syslog.org/wiki/Main/LoggingWindowsToSyslogServer> -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
