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Old 04-17-2015
Separating McAfee scan results in SYSLOG

You said, "You never know what you'll want from your logfiles until you do, so I wouldn't try being too incredibly specific except for separating mcaffee results from everything else interesting.".

How do you separate McAfee results from everything else?

Thanks,
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Old 04-17-2015
First I would check the suggestion cjcox made last week:

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You need to consult your McAfee manual and see if the "facility" is configurable. Usually, you'd choose one of the "user" facility types (local0 - local7) and configure it to use that facility... then you can adjust your syslog conf to take messages for that facility and output to a separate log area.
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Old 04-20-2015
syslog file filling up

In Suse Linux servers, there is a syslog file /var/log/messages The file size is 5G and it's getting filled up with logs.

What happens when it reaches to full? Is the system going to stop? Is there a mechanism to clean up or rotate automatically so that the file never reaches full?

Thanks,


 
 

Last edited by rbatte1; 04-20-2015 at 12:47 PM.. Reason: Highlight directory name.
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Old 04-20-2015
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