(RADIATOR) How to send accounting logs to SYSLOG

Claudio Lapidus clapidus at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 15:59:36 CST 2007


Vangelis, if you are going to use syslog to handle accounting data,
please take into consideration that syslog is an unreliable protocol,
it uses UDP transport and has no support for retransmissions, so if a
datagram gets lost in transit, you risk losing the whole accounting
record.

hth,
cl.


On 2/8/07, Vangelis Kyriakakis <vkyriak at forthnet.gr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>         Is it possible to send accounting logs to SYSLOG?
>         I guess I can write to /dev/log using appropriate format for the
> accounting, but it would be convenient to be able to use something like
> the <AuthLog SYSLOG> for the authentication logs.
>
>              Regards
>                  Vangelis
>
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