A centralized syslog server was one of the first true SysAdmin tasks that I was given as a Linux Administrator way back in 1997. My boss at the time wanted to pull in log files from various appliances ...

Operating systems, applications, and network devices generate text messages of the events that happen to them: a user logs in, a file is created, a network connection is opened to a remote host, etc.

Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

Writing some messages to multiple locations is a pretty normal thing in all UNIX / Linux syslog configurations, so I would just leave it alone. You're not going to gain much of anything for all the ...

For many with an IT Operations background we know Syslog event messaging as a highly useful logging function. It is ubiquitous in Cisco hardware products and controllers, and most management software; ...