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Wed Aug 31 00:22:42 CDT 2005

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> USING SYSLOG-NG FOR LOG HANDLING
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> The de facto standard of system log handling is to use the syslog
> daemon. While this is usually sufficient, there are some drawbacks to
> using syslog. For one, it cannot rotate logs on its own and requires
> another tool, typically logrotate, to do it. Secondly, when used to
> send log messages to a remote system, it can only do so over UDP, a
> stateless protocol; so log messages can potentially be lost or
> misdirected. It also means that they can't be encrypted and are sent
> clear over the wire; not such a big deal for intranet systems but
> definitely a problem when you want to send logs over the Internet.
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> An alternative system logger is syslog-ng. The syslog-ng tool doesn't
> suffer from any of these drawbacks and has a powerful configuration
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