[rsyslog] sending logs outside /etc/rsyslog.conf to remote server

[david at lang.hm]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Israel Garcia wrote:

> I've some daemons with their logs not define in /etc/rsyslog.conf and
> files outside /var/log folder. I have a central rsyslog receiving logs
> from severral servers.
>
> My question is:
>
> How can setup rsyslog on clients to send these logs outside
> /etc/rsyslog.conf to the central rsyslog server? Is this possible?

the first problem is to get the messages to rsyslog.

if the applications don't have an option to log to syslog you can use the 
imfile input module in rsyslog to read lines from the file and process 
them.

David Lang