log files

[Cyber Source]

now this sounds cool. a bit more than I need right now but definitely 
worth checkin out, Thanks

Darin Perusich wrote:

> if you'd really like to make log files easier to read try logging to 
> mysql and put a php frontend on it. this is what i do, it's much 
> easier when you've centralized your messages on a log server.
>
> you can do this with syslog-ng, which redhat ships with but there 
> isn't a clean mechinism for putting the message into mysql. i'm using 
> msyslog, http://msyslog.sf.net as my syslog daemon on my log server. 
> it uses modules/plug-ins for send the message to a databse. it support 
> mysql, postgress, oracle out of the box, as long as you have the 
> client libraries installed. i use a slightly modified php frontend 
> which i grapped at http://vermeer.org/syslog/.
>
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>
>> Anyone know of an easy way to have certain services send there log 
>> messages to a different place. For instance, to send DHCP messages to 
>> a different file other than the standard /var/log/messages. Or for 
>> any other service like PPP. It would make reading the log files much 
>> better.
>>
>>
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