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I have installed logzilla for monitoring the logs and its is storing logs in

mysql database.

I want to know that will my logs now only get entered in mysql or i can access them as normal as well

like /var/log/messages

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Are there new entries still appearing in /var/log/messages and so on? Are the possible new entries the same than the ones in MySQL? If so, then it's logging to both. – Janne Pikkarainen Aug 24 '10 at 8:48

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it depends on the rules :>

Logzilla is just to view the logs that has been saved into the database. But somehow these logs must be redirected there. That's where syslogd and it's derivatives (syslog-ng rsyslog) take their positions.

The big question is ... how do you place the logs into the database ? Could you send a sample of the configuration ? What do you use ? syslogd ? syslog-ng ? rsyslog ?

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i used syslog-ng – John Aug 24 '10 at 10:40
ok. could you send me the configuration ? Otherwise i cannot tell if you save them both on the disk and the database. – Nikolaidis Fotis Aug 24 '10 at 12:06
where is the config file located – John Aug 25 '10 at 0:33
/etc/syslog.conf – Nikolaidis Fotis Aug 25 '10 at 7:00

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