Re: 'mirroring' or 'streaming' a text log file?

Thomison, Lee wrote:

>Hi folks,
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>I did this a couple of years ago, and it seemed really simple then, but
>I can't remember how I did it.
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>I've got an (closed, proprietary) app running on a solaris 2.5.1 box
>that writes its logs in text format, several lines a second sometimes.
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>I need to duplicate these to another machine, so that the files are
>'mirrors' of each other; as the one is written to, it feeds the
>duplicate.
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>Even better would be 'streaming' the log file to my logging host's
>syslog-ng (the solaris boxen use legacy syslog, not syslog-ng). I think
>I ended up doing it with a startup service, so it wasn't just a
>'background' job, it was a real reflecting service.
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>This seemed really easy and obvious a few years ago, but for the life of
>me I can't remember how I did it. Any thoughts?
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>Thx,
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Syslog can do this for you. You can setup a system to take care of all
the logs. Configure all your hosts to send logs to this server.

You need to take a look at the following:
1. syslogd
2. syslog.conf

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Received on Tue Apr 26 20:11:26 2005