[wplug] Cleaning up /var/log/messages

[Liebler, Justin]

You should take a look at syslog-ng,
http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/.  It is much better
than regular syslog and has the filtering capabilities that it sounds
like you need.

 

From: wplug-bounces+jliebler=agoc.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+jliebler=agoc.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Rob
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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 8:24 AM
To: General user list
Subject: [wplug] Cleaning up /var/log/messages

 

I am using autofs for a number of machines connecting nfs shares.  All
the mount and unmount log entries on the server are being saved to
/var/log/messages currently.  This is becoming a bit of a pain because
as the number of hosts increase and various monitoring scripts check to
be sure that they have access to the nfs shares it is filling up
messages on the nfs server.  I would like to continue to see these
messages but I would like to see them put else where but looking through
the documentation for syslog I couldn't find any way to separate just
those messages out.  I assume(hope) that someone else has run into this
problem and found a way around it.  My googlefoo has failed me on this
one though I might just not be looking for the right thing.

Thanks,
Rob




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