(RADIATOR) How to send accounting logs to SYSLOG

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Stuart -

We will not be adding this to Radiator.

The main reason is that SYSLOG is an unreliable protocol and hence  
not suitable for accounting.

You could write a simple hook or use an AuthBy EXTERNAL to call an  
external logger.

regards

Hugh



On 10 Feb 2007, at 03:21, Stuart Kendrick wrote:

> hi hugh,
>
> i'd like to express my enthusiasm for this capability
>
> we host Radiator on Windows, where this capability would be  
> particularly useful
>
> we employ one of those "forward Windows logs to syslog"  
> programs ... which is better than nothing ... but decidedly  
> limited.  for starters, these forwarding programs insert a delay or  
> a minute or more between receipt of the log entry from Radiator to  
> propagating the entry to our loghost ... annoying from an  
> accounting perspective and a bear when trying to correlate events  
> while trouble-shooting.  and it is another point-of-failure ...  
> another link in the chain which can, and does, stop working,  
> requiring operator intervention to fix.  [yes, i would like to  
> monitor this service and restart it automatically when it fails,  
> but i'm not that smart yet]
>
> if Radiator could forward directly to syslog, we could eliminate  
> both these issues
>
> i haven't a clue what your list looks like, as far as bug fixes and  
> enhancements go, nor what your customer base in general wants, so i  
> won't pretend to be able to rank this feature request alongside  
> those other requests.  but i figure that expressing my enthusiasm  
> for it, and explaining why, can help you prioritize
>
> --sk
>
> stuart kendrick
> fhcrc
>
>
>
> Vangelis Kyriakakis wrote:
>> Hello Hugh,
>>         Thanks for the answer. Is there a technical reason for  
>> this or are you going to support it in the future?
>>                       Regards
>>                             Vangelis
>> Hugh Irvine wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Vangelis -
>>>
>>> Radiator does not include support for sending accounting logs to  
>>> SYSLOG.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Hugh
>>>
>>
>
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NB:

Have you read the reference manual ("doc/ref.html")?
Have you searched the mailing list archive (www.open.com.au/archives/ 
radiator)?
Have you had a quick look on Google (www.google.com)?
Have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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