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Syslog-ng configuration and rotation script

Syslog-ng configuration and rotation script

I’m a big fan of syslog-ng. All my devices which allow the usage of syslog send information to my syslog-ng server. The server configuration below will send all information to specific day dirs for each device. The client configuration will send all information to the syslog-ng server but we will also keep the messages and authentication log stored on the local machine. After a few months (maybe weeks – depending on the number of devices u have) this will take…

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RRDtool: 32bit to 64bit?

RRDtool: 32bit to 64bit?

While playing around with creating some statistics from several servers I came to the following problem: [warning]ERROR: This RRD was created on other architecture[/warning] The problem was simple, the file was created on a 32 bit machine and I was trying to access it on a 64 bit machine. The fix for this is quite simple but due to Google being a pain from time to time it took me some time to find the solution. Therefor I’m posting it…

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