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About syslog, rsyslog, and syslog-ng

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About syslog, rsyslog, and syslog-ng

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- [Instructor] Syslog, otherwise known as sysklogd, came into being in 1980. At that time, it could log single lines to a log file and specify the facility or service that the message is about, plus a log level and a message. It could log to remote servers over UDP protocol, but did not have congestion control. The syslog protocol became the de facto standard in the Linux and Unix world. Syslog had many limitations, so it needed to be replaced. 24 years after syslog came out, the rsyslog project was started, and is backwards compatible with sysklogd. Rsyslog supports timestamps with millisecond granularity and time zone information. It also supports the addition of the name of relays in the host fields to make it possible to track the path a given message has traversed. It supports reliable transport using TCP, supports GSS-API and TLS for security, and logging directly into various database engines. It also supports RELP,…

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