Re: [[email protected]: ADMIN request]

Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:55:44 -0700 

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Volker Wiegand wrote:

 > Hmmm, this helps you only for local messages. The moment you start mixing
 > syslog messages from different hosts on your central loghost, you won't be
 > able to associate the messages any more.

I think it is safe to assume that no two hosts with the same name and
randomly generated number (/dev/random at syslogd startup) log to the same
loghost. You should be able to figure that out on the loghost
appropriately, and repeat necessary lines (if the user wished so, of
course).

    Simon

PGP public key available from ftp://phobos.fs.tum.de/pub/pgp/geier.asc
  Fingerprint: 10 62 F6 F5 C0 5D 9E D8  47 05 1B 8A 22 E5 4E C1

Reply via email to