Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd system utility providing support for message logging. Support of both internet and unix domain sockets enables this utility to support both local and remote logging. It is a replacement to the old syslogd and it works on the same syslog.conf file syntax. Its advanced features make it suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user. Rsyslogd provides a kind of logging that many modern programs use. Every logged message contains at least a time and a hostname field, normally a program name field, too, but that depends on how trusty the logging program is.
The basic config file looks like this :
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[root@linux-cloud ~]# rpm -qa | grep rsyslog
rsyslog-3.14.1-2.fc9.i386
[root@linux-cloud ~]# grep -v ^$ /etc/rsyslog.conf | grep -v ^#
$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat
$ModLoad imuxsock.so # provides support for local system logging (e.g. via logger command)
$ModLoad imklog.so # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd)
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages
authpriv.* /var/log/secure
mail.* -/var/log/maillog
cron.* /var/log/cron
*.emerg *
uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler
local7.* /var/log/boot.log
[root@linux-cloud ~]#
You can download it from http://www.rsyslog.com/
