Oh boy – I was not ready for a hit like that. But let me start with the whole picture, shall we? I do run a central syslog using graylog and I tend to ship my logs to that device for easier searching and poking around in those. No big deal until I looked at my DNS traffic […]
Tag: syslog
Syslog-NG rants
Today was the day of another lovely Syslog-NG update, which included upgrading the config file. In other words, browsing the docs for any important changes and migrating those. Isn’t that exactly one of our favorite tasks as it kills way too much time preventing us to do the important stuff? In the meanwhile I migrated to rsyslog as […]
Syslog NG and permissions
Syslog NG and permissions are a topic on its own – especially if you like to keep your system safe. Imagine, you run a process to parse your syslog files, which you do not want to run as root. Sounds easy? A first try might be using chmod and chown for adjusting the permissions, but the problem we’re […]