[nylug-talk] syslog-ng vs syslogd

[Brandorr]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Steven Lembark <lembark at wrkhors.com> wrote:
>
>   >>> Hey guys, in the Solaris world Syslog-ng is considered the best of
>   >>> breed app for deploying a centralized logging server. Is this also the
>   >>> case in the Linux world, or is the GNU syslogd on par/better??
>   >> I use syslog-ng on all my Linux servers.
>   >
>   >    Ugh.  That's cool, but it doesn't answer the question.  Is there a reason
>   > why you (or anyone) switched from syslogd to syslog-ng?  In my case there
>   > wasn't really a choice; the version of OpenSlug that I'm using on my NSLU2's
>   > has only syslog-ng available for a logging daemon.
>   >    What advantages does syslog-ng have over sysklogd, or vice-versa?
>
>  Solaris servers are more likely to be heavy-duty
>  boxes in corporate centers and can use the extra
>  features.
>
>  Main reason for switching on linux is that -ng
>  came with the distro by default. For 99% of personal
>  use syslog-ng is overkill and enough extra work
>  to configure that it's worth avoiding:  you can
>  get 'messsages' and 'errlog' files in two trivial
>  config logs and that's probably all you need.
>
>  In a distributed environment ng makes it easier
>  to break down the logs by service, level, host,
>  etc, so that you can get nice, specific logs.
>  This is not all that helpful with a single
>  machine or if you're happy with local syslog's
>  on each machine.

Thanks guys. I looks like syslog-ng will be the trick.. This is for a
central loghost for about 14 high traffic machines. I am not that
familiar with the Linux daemon, but it sounds like syslog-ng still has
advantages when it comes to setting up a central loghost. (We are
loggin application logs to syslog).

Cheers,
Brian

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