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socklog-2.1.2

small and secure replacement for syslogd

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Description

socklog, in cooperation with the runit package, is a small and secure replacement for syslogd. There are three main features syslogd provides: * receiving syslog messages from an unix domain socket ("/dev/log") and writing them to various files on disk depending on facility and priority. * receiving syslog messages from an udp socket ("0.0.0.0:514") and writing them to various files on disk depending on facility and priority. * writing received syslog messages to an udp socket ("a.b.c.d:514")

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/socklog
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Christian Rueger <cr+openbsd@rueger-net.de>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed

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Direct dependencies

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