Published on April 18, 2007

I really like using PSAD, both on my server and my laptop. You never know where the mean people are. I also seem to use syslog-ng quite often, meanwhile PSAD seems oriented to syslog. This is fine, and I'm pretty sure the install.pl for the source built will configure syslog-ng.conf automatically. However, I almost always tend to stick with packages if I can -- if they are even remotely close to the current version.

Anyways, if you need to get syslog-ng.conf configured for PSAD, this is what you need to do:

Add this code to the "# pipes" section, maybe stick to keeping it alphabetical.

destination psadpipe { pipe("/var/lib/psad/psadfifo"); };

Next, go down a little to the "# filters" section, add this:

filter f_kerninfo { facility(kern); };

And finally in the last section, add this:

log {
        source(s_all);
        filter(f_kerninfo);
        destination(psadpipe);
};

Restart syslog-ng, and you are good to go. Cheers to Michael Rash at Cipherdyne for his work on PSAD.

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