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

[Israel Garcia]

On 9/30/09, david at lang.hm <david at lang.hm> wrote:
> 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.

Hi David,

Has  anybody on the list setup apache, proftpd, momgrel or any other
daemon logs to forward to a centralized syslog  server? I'd appreciate
your experiences.

regards,
Israel.
>
> David Lang
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Regards;
Israel Garcia