PSAD and Syslog-NG
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.
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