Syslog is a standard protocol for message logging that allows devices and applications to send log messages to a centralized server. It separates the software that generates messages from the system ...

Syslog is the network logging workhorse of Linux and Unix systems. It is both a communications protocol as well as a set of actual programs and libraries.

The Linux logger command provides an easy way to add log files to /var/log/syslog — from the command line, from scripts, or from other files. In today’s post, we’ll take a look at how it works.

I'm setting up a centralized syslog Linux box for all of our network switches and access points.Is there a way to have my Windows 2003 servers send event log messages to the syslog server as well ...

Or just buy syslog-ng (which worked really well and is managed by GPO), or get Snare for free and spend more time on installation and configuration, to get all those Windows events into the Linux ...