Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

The syslog deamon (syslogd) on Unix systems provides message logging for other services so that each service doesn’t have to duplicate the same basic functionality to manage logging for itself. The ...

How to use syslog-ng to collect logs from remote Linux machines Your email has been sent Jack Wallen walks you through the process of setting up a centralized Linux log server using syslog-ng. Let’s ...

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Writing some messages to multiple locations is a pretty normal thing in all UNIX / Linux syslog configurations, so I would just leave it alone. You're not going to gain much of anything for all the ...