Subj : Re: Syslog and Windows
To   : dragon
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Feb 26 2024 13:15:16

  Re: Re: Syslog and Windows
  By: dragon to Dumas Walker on Sun Feb 25 2024 10:49 pm

 > On 2/20/2024 08:52, Dumas Walker wrote:
 > >> Quite a lot of functionality is lost by running Synchronet as a service.
 > >>    I would much prefer to have Synchronet send log entries directly to a
 > >> remote syslog server.  If this seems too difficult to implement, I won't
 > >> keep pushing the idea.
 >
 > > Since it sounds like you are talking about windows, this may not be an
 > > option, but I think that rsyslog gives you the option to send the output
 > > to
 > > a remote syslog server.  That should mean that individual software
 > > programs don't need to know how to do it on their own.
 >
 >
 > >   * SLMR 2.1a * Avoid reality at all costs.
 >
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 > >   ¨ Synchronet ¨ CAPCITY2 * capcity2.synchro.net *
 > > Telnet/SSH:2022/Rlogin/HTTP
 >
 > I am talking Windows.
 >
 > I manage multiple mail, s/ftp, im, firewall, and other servers spread
 > out all over the World on a variety of OSes.  Most of these are able to
 > send messages to a central syslog server.
 >
 > There's also an IDS system sending syslog alerts.
 >
 > Currently, Synchronet's logs are bundled up by some scripts that forward
 > them to syslog.  I would like to remove the delay this introduces to
 > that to, for instance, update my firewall against hack attempts.

Are you using a Syslog Agent for Windows?

Do your other Windows applications have built-in syslog support? Are they open source?

If you know, what format syslog msgs are you/they using: BSD or IETF format?
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