Configure a UNIX server to send its logs to a remote syslog server?

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Is it possible?

If so, how is it done exactly? The syslog.conf file doesn't help too much.

Have you done any research already? Sending logging entries to a remote server is one of the core capabilities of syslogd. Here's just one guide I quickly dug up: news.softpedia.com/news/… — Oliver Salzburg, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:52
@OliverSalzburg For completeness here is a guide describing the problems in the syslog "plain tcp format", an interesting read: blog.gerhards.net/2008/04/… — Shadok, Apr 4, 2012 at 13:08
@Oliver Salzburg According to my understanding, syslogd is the daemon running the local logging. — user6004, Apr 4, 2012 at 15:14
One might want to have a look at RELP, which addresses some of the reliability issues that may (rarely) pop up with rsyslogd. wiki.chilblain.net/dokuwiki/doku.php/… — lysdexia, Aug 20, 2013 at 20:51

Huygens · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-21 12:48:54Z

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Yes it is possible and you can use rsyslog.

answered Apr 4, 2012 at 13:01

Huygens

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I use rsyslog for this exact purpose.
– LawrenceC
Aug 20, 2013 at 21:00
@mattdm could you explain why using rsyslog is plain wrong? It does work for me and others (customers): I have been using it in various professional environments. But I guess you have some arguments and I would be curious to here them and discuss further with you. For this purpose I invite you to use the chat feature. We could then put a summary here once we discussed it.
– Huygens
Aug 21, 2013 at 7:43
@mattdm Ho, OK understood. I did not see that the words carried such strong "narrow" emphasis. I will update the sentence then.
– Huygens
Aug 21, 2013 at 12:47

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Suyash Jain · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-10 17:50:50Z

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You can do this by adding the following line at the end of /etc/rsyslog.conf

for udp

*.* @remoteserverip

for tcp

*.* @@remoteserverip

answered Apr 26, 2016 at 7:38

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