At 02:39 PM 6/17/98 -0700, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Kevin Ogden wrote:
>
>> >Either use kerberos, or use ssh. You can get ssh for free for unix, and
>> >there's already a package for it in /usr/pkgsrc. :-)
>> 
>> I haven't screwed around with ssh yet (I might soon).  I do use Kerberos
>> though.
>
>I find both useful. Kerberos is good as you only have to type your
>password once. The problem is that it's really designed for a centralized
>environment. ssh is great for less-centralized security.
>
>> I have mine set up to write everything to a file then I run tail -f
>> /var/log/messages > /dev/<print device>
>> /var/log/messages is my logfile, and when tail sees another line at the end
>> of the file it gets printed on this cheesy dot matrix I've got.  Pretty
>> soon I'm going to have all the machines send their logs to this machine and
>> it will print them too.  That's going to require some creative work
>> probably.  (the box the printer is on runs NetBSD/i386, not mac68k, on the
>> mac it all goes to console for now and the alphas run DEC UNIX)
>
>You can just have ssylog send things both to the log files AND to the
>printer. That way, you don't worry about the tail -f getting killed.

Hmm..  I'll have to play with Syslogd some more tonight.  I never knew that.

>Also, syslog can be setup to to remote/centralized logging. I think. I'm
>not sure how to do it, though.

Now that would be cool! What I was going to do is write some funky
client/server thing in PERL (I'm a masochist) to do it, but now I might not
have to.

Thanx,
	Kevin