Re: [logs] wtmp, lastlog, etc files

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james@private

SAWYER Charlotte M wrote:
> Has anyone come up with a way to get these logs off the generating
> system to a logging system?  I'd prefer to leave the logs on the
> server, but copy them to my logging system.

With lastlog and wtmp on Red Hat I pipe these into logger using the lastlog
and w commands, ie. lastlog > logger, on each of my systems and then my
standard syslog-ng rules take over and sends them to the central log box.

Regards

James Turnbull

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