Configure a UNIX server to send its logs to a remote syslog server?

Question

Is it possible?

If so, how is it done exactly? The syslog.conf file doesn't help too much.

Answer 1

Yes it is possible and you can use rsyslog.

There is a good online manual for doing this: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_reliable_forwarding.html

And the general rsyslog doc is: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/manual.html

Answer 2

You can do this by adding the following line at the end of /etc/rsyslog.conf

for udp

*.* @remoteserverip

for tcp

*.* @@remoteserverip