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dan_19334
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Sep 22, 2008

Syslog off box via TCP and stop writing to disk

We would like to remote syslog off the LTM via TCP for guaranteed delivery and also prevent the messages from writing to disk. In order to get TCP versus UDP we stream the logs through the local sysl...
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dan_19334
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Sep 26, 2008
Thanks for the information. Here is my workaround to get any custom syslog-ng configuration. This allowed me to stream logs off the box without writing them to disk.

 

 

1) Stop syslog-ng (bigstart stop syslog-ng)

 

2) Edit /var/run/config/syslog-ng.conf to meet my needs

 

3) Start syslog-ng (bigstart start syslog-ng)

 

 

This worked around the limitations of just appending syslog configs via the F5 method.

 

 

Thanks.