syslog server

[rk_monde]

Hi friends....i have a proxy server (IPCOP 1.4.21) in which Urlfilter addon were installed. The logs of urlfilter are storing at /var/log/squidGuard/urlfilter.log file. Now we want to transfer these log automatically to our centralize log server. Pls help to write the script for the same...

Thanks in advance...

[unlimitedscolobb]

Hi friends....i have a proxy server (IPCOP 1.4.21) in which Urlfilter addon were installed. The logs of urlfilter are storing at /var/log/squidGuard/urlfilter.log file. Now we want to transfer these log automatically to our centralize log server. Pls help to write the script for the same...

How is your "centralized log server" configured? Do you just store logs as files there or do you have a special protocol by which a machine can do remote logging on the server?

If your purpose is just transferring the log file to the server, then you should consider using scp(1): secure copy - Linux man page or rsync MAN Page , if your log file is really large and you don't rotate it sufficiently often. If you want the transfers to be done automatically, you may find using a cron daemon useful (Fcron : a periodical command scheduler for Unix and Linux systems and Anacron -- anac(h)ronistic cron -- a random choice).

[Mudgen]

As Hunter Thom told you when you posted essentially the same question a week ago:

Is SSH enabled on both machines? If so, I would suggest using SCP.

This would be very simple. This would be a 2 line script (one for the shebang). Then you put it into cron.daily (if that runs at an acceptable time). Otherwise, you can setup your own cron configuration in /etc/crontab or a user cron configuration using the command 'crontab -e'.

By the way, how is a "syslog server" involved? I don't see any mention of syslogd/rsyslogd in your scenario. Are you trying to transfer a file, or do remote syslogging?