Mailing List Archive: rsyslog Usage

Just let us get to an understanding of features, howto once we have
settle on a version:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Gerrard Geldenhuis
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:43 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: [rsyslog] rsyslog Usage
>
> Hi
>
> Apologies for being slightly lazy/in a rush. I am reading through the
> documentation at the moment but I want to do the following:
>
>
>
> Log to local host and multiple remote hosts. (The same message gets
> send
> to multiple hosts)

Absolutely no problem. Just do as many

*.* @host1
*.* @host2
*.* @hostn

As you like (of course, you can also filter).

> I saw a backup host example but not to two hosts simultaneously, can I
> log to two hosts simultaneously?

Backup is just a special use case. You can use some backups and also -
see above - just regular multiple actions.

>
>
> Will/can rsyslog buffer log files if the remote host is not available
> and then sync when the host is available again. And if you are logging
> to more than one host will this still work. Would disk space be the
> only
> limiting factor in buffering files locally?

Indeed. This talks about databases, but it applies to any action
(including write to host):

http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_high_database_rate.html

The bad news, though, is that you need a recent v3 build...

HTH
Rainer
>
> I am using a fedora package which contains the following version:
> rsyslog-1.19.6-3.fc8
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
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