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Add syslog forwarding host to syslog-ng

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$Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.conf.gentoo,v 1.7 2007/08/02 04:52:18 mr_bones_ Exp $

# # Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux # contributed by Michael Sterrett

options { chain_hostnames(off); sync(0);

# The default action of syslog-ng 1.6.0 is to log a STATS line # to the file every 10 minutes. That's pretty ugly after a while. # Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of # how many messages syslog-ng missed (0). stats(43200); };

source src { unix-stream("/dev/log" max-connections(256)); internal(); file("/proc/kmsg"); };

destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); }; destination splunk { tcp("hostname-or-ip" port(9998)); };

# By default messages are logged to tty12... destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); }; # ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole # you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12 # and uncomment the line below. #destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); };

log { source(src); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); destination(splunk); }; log { source(src); destination(console_all); };