Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I would like to know if there's a syslog alternative out there that will actually write my network equipments' logs to files. After having major issues with syslogd and attempting a thorough debug of which I posted to this mailing list and wasn't able to fix even with more experienced

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there's a syslog alternative out there that will actually write my network equipments' logs to files. After having major issues with syslogd and attempting a thorough debug of which I posted

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
[...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog but again something failed with that in order to write

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 11/28/11 7:09 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog but again

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Fbsd8
Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog but again something failed with that

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/29/2011 04:18 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with