topic Re: syslog question in Operating System - Linux

syslog question

girishb — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:11:56 GMT

Hello Gurus,

Here is the quick question on syslog on SuSE Linux 10.

How can we redirect all syslog message for a particular user ID into another log file?

Appreciate your quick response.

Thanks
GB

Re: syslog question

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:06:43 GMT

>> for a particular user ID

Syslog registers messages from daemons and services. What do you mean with "particular user ID", what kind of information do you want to redirect?

Re: syslog question

Ivan Krastev — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:16:36 GMT

You can use powerful rsyslog to filter messages - http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_conf_filter.html

Check if their forums for any filters based on the user id.

regards,
ivan

Re: syslog question

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:36:13 GMT

Normally can choose the log file to redirect not user. But following can work to specific userid:

if you use SNMP Trap forwarder mechanism and set specific IP for specific userid as destination address, it sounds possible , but need some workaround to accomplish this.

look for snmp configuration for Linux in google or in forums.