On 2/20/2024 08:52, Dumas Walker wrote:

Quite a lot of functionality is lost by running Synchronet as a service.
I would much prefer to have Synchronet send log entries directly to a
remote syslog server. If this seems too difficult to implement, I won't
keep pushing the idea.

Since it sounds like you are talking about windows, this may not be an option, but I think that rsyslog gives you the option to send the output to
a remote syslog server. That should mean that individual software programs don't need to know how to do it on their own.

* SLMR 2.1a * Avoid reality at all costs.

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I am talking Windows.

I manage multiple mail, s/ftp, im, firewall, and other servers spread
out all over the World on a variety of OSes. Most of these are able to
send messages to a central syslog server.

There's also an IDS system sending syslog alerts.

Currently, Synchronet's logs are bundled up by some scripts that forward
them to syslog. I would like to remove the delay this introduces to
that to, for instance, update my firewall against hack attempts.

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Re: Re: Syslog and Windows
By: dragon to Dumas Walker on Sun Feb 25 2024 10:49 pm

On 2/20/2024 08:52, Dumas Walker wrote:

Quite a lot of functionality is lost by running Synchronet as a service. >> I would much prefer to have Synchronet send log entries directly to a >> remote syslog server. If this seems too difficult to implement, I won't >> keep pushing the idea.

Since it sounds like you are talking about windows, this may not be an option, but I think that rsyslog gives you the option to send the output to
a remote syslog server. That should mean that individual software programs don't need to know how to do it on their own.

* SLMR 2.1a * Avoid reality at all costs.

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¨ Synchronet ¨ CAPCITY2 * capcity2.synchro.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/Rlogin/HTTP

I am talking Windows.

I manage multiple mail, s/ftp, im, firewall, and other servers spread
out all over the World on a variety of OSes. Most of these are able to
send messages to a central syslog server.

There's also an IDS system sending syslog alerts.

Currently, Synchronet's logs are bundled up by some scripts that forward them to syslog. I would like to remove the delay this introduces to
that to, for instance, update my firewall against hack attempts.

Are you using a Syslog Agent for Windows?

Do your other Windows applications have built-in syslog support? Are they open source?

If you know, what format syslog msgs are you/they using: BSD or IETF format?
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On 2/26/2024 16:15, Digital Man wrote:

Re: Re: Syslog and Windows
By: dragon to Dumas Walker on Sun Feb 25 2024 10:49 pm

> On 2/20/2024 08:52, Dumas Walker wrote:
> >> Quite a lot of functionality is lost by running Synchronet as a service.
> >> I would much prefer to have Synchronet send log entries directly to a
> >> remote syslog server. If this seems too difficult to implement, I won't
> >> keep pushing the idea.
>
> > Since it sounds like you are talking about windows, this may not be an
> > option, but I think that rsyslog gives you the option to send the output
> > to
> > a remote syslog server. That should mean that individual software
> > programs don't need to know how to do it on their own.
>
>
> > * SLMR 2.1a * Avoid reality at all costs.
>
> > ---
> > ¨ Synchronet ¨ CAPCITY2 * capcity2.synchro.net *
> > Telnet/SSH:2022/Rlogin/HTTP
>
> I am talking Windows.
>
> I manage multiple mail, s/ftp, im, firewall, and other servers spread
> out all over the World on a variety of OSes. Most of these are able to
> send messages to a central syslog server.
>
> There's also an IDS system sending syslog alerts.
>
> Currently, Synchronet's logs are bundled up by some scripts that forward
> them to syslog. I would like to remove the delay this introduces to
> that to, for instance, update my firewall against hack attempts.

Are you using a Syslog Agent for Windows?

Do your other Windows applications have built-in syslog support? Are they open source?

If you know, what format syslog msgs are you/they using: BSD or IETF format?

Currently I'm using a syslog server my buddy and I wrote in Perl. I've
used free and commercial Syslog servers for Windows as well. None of
those were open source, which is what prompted creating our own.

I have several closed souced commercial Windows applications, as well as numerous Perl applicationes we wrote sending to syslog.

The Perl syslog server is format agnostic and can deal with IETF or BSD format. I actually run 2 instances, one for each. Only one application currently uses BSD format.

If you're looking for example code for sending messages, the Perl
Net::Syslog module has it all and is pretty small.

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