[logs] syslog config file format poll

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:52 -0400, David Corlette wrote:
> Actually, I hate the syslog-ng format.  It's poorly documented and exampled, try finding any references on how to set it up to forward messages to another remote syslog daemon. 
> 
> Here's the relevant manpage section:
> 
> DESTINATIONS
>        Destinations can be created using the destination keyword:
>        destination <destname> { destdriver params; destdriver params; ... ; };
>        * udp <ip>,<port> - network destination using the UDP protocol
> 
> Here's what a reasonable person would guess that means:

Please don't use the manpage. This message is again an incentive to
remove it altogether. (it was originally contributed but is not
maintained anymore).

The "official" syslog-ng documentation is available at:

http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/

It contains much more information and examples. You can find the docs in
HTML or PDF there.

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Bazsi