[logs] syslog config file format poll

[David Corlette]

So, if I'm on an airplane trying to work out how to write a syslog-ng config file I should what... guess?

You need to include a decent manpage with the product as it ships, isn't that obvious? 

BTW, a Google search for "syslog-ng.conf" doesn't show the URL you mention on the first page of results - are you blocking index robots?

>>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at  8:56 AM, in message
<1189515412.8282.34.camel at bzorp.balabit>, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>
wrote: 
> 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.