From: Rafael Angarita (rangarita@telcel.net.ve)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 16:27:24 EDT
Hi,
I have 2 questions about syslog:
1.-
Is it possible to customize the logs rotation when you are using a
central repository log server?
I have an application using syslog to forwards its logs to our
logs central server and I want to rotate only the log associate to this
application with a frecuency that is not the the same that the others
logs collected in this server.
man syslog.conf says nothing about customize the frequency of the
logs rotation.
I know the syslog rotation is done using the crontab job
/usr/lib/newsyslog but it rotates all the logs, if I change the
frequency of this crontab all the logs will be rotated but that's not
what I want (I want to rotate logs for only one application).
Is there a way to rotate only the log I want?
I think "cp mylog newlog; cp /dev/null mylog" is not a good idea,
due to corruption possibility.
2.-
By the way, is syslog reliable enough? (it's implemented over UDP,
but the man pages says nothing about the reliability when forwarding
to a remote server), I really care each of the application logs line...
Thanks in advance,
-- Rafael Angarita System Administrator _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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