My firewall is filling up my /var/log/messages I'd like to redirect the traffic to anohr logfile

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, May 05, 2010 12:04 AM, Maxime Alarie wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I have setup my Cisco ASA top send its logs to my Ubuntu server syslogd
> (9.1, server, no UI). I am happy because I can keep all the logfiles on
> my server.. But, my /var/log/messages file is spammed like crazy by
> cisco logs.
>
> I would like to redirect those logs somewhere else. Any tips are welcome
> while I RTFM.

Are you able to set which facility that the Cisco will send log messages 
as or find out which facility is uses? Otherwise, you will be pretty 
much stuck with putting other things elsewhere to find out and then you 
might want to leave things as they are afterward instead of reorganizing 
again unless you have stuff that regularly check messages.