syslog 101

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:


> rsyslog is the Ubuntu default?

Yes.


> I want to run syslog on a Grandstream GXP 1625 IP hard phone. Which
> implementation has the least steep (ready easy to get to step one)
> learning curve?

It depends on what you already know.


> I was looking at syslog-ng and the documentation is rather huge. But maybe
> there's alternate documentation, or I was just reading the wrong part. Or,
> maybe rsyslog would be easier to get going. What are some recommendation?

The format of "/etc/rsyslog.conf" and "/etc/rsyslog.conf.d/*" is
similar to legacy syslog.conf on Linux and syslog.conf on Solaris,
FreeBSD, and NetBSD (and perhaps others but these are what I know),
with some rsyslog-specific options. Whereas, from what I've seen on
mailing list support requests, syslog-ng.conf has a completely
different format.