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Re: Syslog messages to a remote machine



On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:42:03AM +0300, guy keren wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Boaz Rymland wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to set a server machine to send it's syslog messages to my machine.
> 
> just for general info: remote syslog is done by sending messages using
> UDP, without any packet received acknowledgement or retransmission. thus,
> if a logging packet is lost - the log message will be lost without any
> sign for that. this is not recommended for a production system, if the
> logs are important.

How about setting an ssh tunnel? You get both reliability and
encryption.

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