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Subject: Re: rlm_linelog and syslog over UDP
From: Alexander Clouter <alex () digriz ! org ! uk>
Date: 2011-03-26 11:28:55
Message-ID: n8v068-re4.ln1 () chipmunk ! wormnet ! eu
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Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote:
>
>> are there any plans to add logging to *remote* syslog servers to the
>> rlm_linelog module? Would be kinda cute; we want to log authentication
>> results to a central statistics collection host - and going through
>> re-send on the local syslog instance is a superfluous extra step.
>
> I see what you mean, but that involves writing a module which opens a
> UDP socket to a remote syslog server, and then creates syslog-formatted
> messages. That's probably not hard (~500 lines?), but not a priority
> right now.
>
I am unsure why something like syslog-ng could not just be installed and
do the syslog'ing instead today? You can either use the file/pipe
source drivers to do whats needed.
> RFC 5424 also says that TCP/TLS should be preferred to UDP for sending
> to remote machines.
>
...queuing, message drop,tail/head drop, it's not trivial.
Cheers
--
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: Better late than never.
-- Titus Livius (Livy)
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