remote logs?
 

Hi!

I have 3 webservers and I want them to log their accesslog to a dedicated log-server which will do the processing for the statistics.

Now, my current setup is to have the 3 webservers log locally and each night the log is rotated and uploaded to the dedicated server.

My question is, is there a way to have the 3 webservers log in realtime to the dedicated server? Without using NFS? (syslog-ng or something maybe? any experiences?)

Thanks!

akke,

I think this is what you are looking for.

http://www.litespeedtech.com/docs/we...og_pipedLogger

Hmmmm. But which program should I be using to have it piped to another server then? Is there anything publicly available that can do this reliably?

You can search for "remote logging" solution for apache, LSWS can do exactly the same. Seems using syslogd is the simpliest solution.

For using piped Logger, you can write a Perl script to forward content received from STDIN to remote server via TCP socket. On remote server, a deamon process which can receive data and log into a file. We don't have any experiences with that kind of setup.