Topic: Remote logging to different file

[Jon_Reynolds]

Hello,

I'm stuck. I am remote logging to a server but all the logs are going into /var/log/messages and I want to be able to log them to a separate log file, like say /var/log/remotesystem instead of /var/log/messages.

Does anyone have an idea on how to make this happen?

Jon

[Franco]

Do you want to modify the syslog.conf or do you want to send the messages to a remote system across the net?

[Jon_Reynolds]

I already have it remote logging to the sme server but it is logging to the /var/log/messages. I would like it to log to say /var/log/remotebox instead of messages. I kind of understand what I need to do but not sure how to go about it.

Thanks for the help,

Jon

[Franco]

take a look at /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/syslog.conf/ and every file within, the 00filename dictates where to write and the others are template driven that will obey this 00filename according to what it says.
But I think there will be complications to the web interface since it follows these names when it reads the logs and parse them to the user ($messages)

[Franco]

Thinking in the lines of using somenthing like logwatch instead of modifying templates, which eventually will be a problem with updates and such, I came across this post which may be exactly what you're looking for:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=19945.0

And if logwatch will do what you need, then you're with luck, a new version just came out:
http://www2.logwatch.org:8080/tabs/download/