On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:13:47PM -0500, Erik Anderson wrote: > Here's my question...I have a linux box on my LAN that is recieving > all of the syslogs from all of my servers (Linux, NT, & Otherwise). I > recently installed a new webserver outside of our LAN, and was > wondering how best to, if possible, get the logs back to my main > logging server. syslog-ng can use TCP instead of UDP and I believe that it also has SSL encryption available. (Perhaps STARTTLS as well). > The only scenario that I've come up with so far is to open an ssh > connection from the logging server to the webserver and use remote > port forwarding to get the logs back. Is this possible? Is there a > better way? For some reason, I have in my head that ssh port > forwarding only works for tcp ports... Use syslog-ng with ssl, ssh, or stunnel or create an encrypted, tunneled interface using vtun. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20031022/81cdcfa9/attachment.pgp