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# Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux
# contributed by Michael Sterrett
options {
chain_hostnames(off);
sync(0);
# The default action of syslog-ng 1.6.0 is to log a STATS line
# to the file every 10 minutes. That's pretty ugly after a while.
# Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of
# how many messages syslog-ng missed (0).
stats(43200);
};
source src {
unix-stream("/dev/log" max-connections(256));
internal();
file("/proc/kmsg");
};
destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };
destination splunk { tcp("hostname-or-ip" port(9998)); };
# By default messages are logged to tty12...
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
# ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole
# you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12
# and uncomment the line below.
#destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); };
log { source(src); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); destination(splunk); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };