syslog question

[girishb]

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

[Ivan Ferreira]

>> 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?

[Ivan Krastev]

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

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

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.