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syslogd is the Linux system logging utility that take care of filling up your files in /var/log when it is asked to. On a standard system, logging is only done on the local drive. But syslog can be configured to receive logging from a remote client, or to send logging to a remote syslog server. Some of the use cases could be:

• A machine which filesystem goes read-only
• Log replication

this tutorial will explain how to set up both the server, to receive message from a remote client, and the client to emit messages to a syslogd server. read more

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