Re: [logs] reinventing syslog [was: Secure Central Log Host]

From: Ed Ravin (eravinat_private)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 10:51:03 PST

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    Florin Andrei writes:
    > The true solution is to modify syslogd.  [...]
    > Changing the code to use local timestamps instead of the ones provided
    > by the datagrams should be no big deal. Some external configuration flag
    > could change the behaviour between the default (use the datagrams'
    > timestamps, or use local time).
    
    syslog-ng already supports this, with its "use_time_recvd()" option.
    You can also do your remote logging via TCP to reduce the chance
    that you are receiving spoofed data.
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