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syslog writing to general instead of specific file
I’m running Ubuntu and Postgresql 9. I’ve enabled postgresql to log to syslog, and added the following directive to the config file: syslog_facility = 'local0'". I’ve tried to configure syslog to log...
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Apache httpd: Send error logs to syslog and local disk? Without touching...
I have an Apache httpd 2.2 server. I want to log all messages using syslog, so that the requests are sent to our central syslog server. I also want to ensure that all log messages are sent to local...
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rsyslog: How do I direct messages from all remote machines to one file?
We have a syslog server and we have all our servers logging to it. We want a sort of “catch-all” drippan rule for all remote messages that we have not configured a rule for. Anyone know how to...
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VMware: Is my SYSLOG Collector running?
I am trying to determine if my Syslog Collector I just set up in vCenter 5 is working correctly. According to this VMware KB article and this VMware blog article, everything seems to be up and running...
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Can a hostname be added to syslog-ng?
How can syslog-ng be configured to send both the hostname and the IP address. Currently, logs are sent with the IP address of the device/machine, but we want to add the hostname so I could keep my ip...
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syslog written on console
I have odd problem with syslog local7, my syslog configure the syslog to be written to local7.info /var/log/syslog_info it’s working just fine for years but recent days one device syslog message...
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Why aren’t Heroku syslog drains logging to rsyslogd?
I’m having a problem using syslog drains as described in https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/logging. To summarize, I have an Ubuntu 10.04 instance on EC2 that is running rsyslogd. I’ve also set up...
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rsyslog not logging messages
i’m attempting to set up my ec2 instance (running amazon linux which as i understand is built on RHEL 5) to forward log messages to loggentries.com but nothing is getting forwarded. as a sanity check...
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How to configure syslogd name/identifier?
I’m forwarding all syslog events to papertrailapp.com, and they are identified as sent by localhost. It’s not convenient, since I have a few servers and all of them are localhost-s. How can I...
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What is this in my syslog and should I be concerned?
I’m seeing a lot of the following line in /var/log/syslog: Jun 21 14:36:15 my-server kernel: [416219.080061] iptables denied: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:the-mac-address:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0...
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