[PD] [OT] slightly: building audio computer with PD

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i'd suggest logging to a loghost, in clasic syslog.conf:
*.*	@loghost
will send all logs to loghost machine, which has to be added to your
hosts file. if you are using syslog-ng, it's slightly more complicated,
but gives you more advantages! syslog-ng can send via TCP, so you can
encrypt it with stunnel ..
having an old-skool syslog at port 514(udp) is a potential security
hole, but i do use it localy. once tried to have it over the internet -
had about 5 people attacking me after a few hours!

i can post a syslog-ng.conf file if you wish ..
i couldn't get stunnel working yet ;(
but there tutorials ..

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:18:13PM +0100, Derek Holzer wrote:
> Either way could work, the ramdisk is a particularly good idea. Unless 
> the installation is networked, there's not too much need for logfiles in 
> the classic server or multiuser environment sort of sense. You could 
> probably also just disable to logging daemon by removing it from the 
> boot scripts using rc-update (on Gentoo at least, or with another 
> distro-specific equivalent). I imagine that logging would simply just 
> fail quietly if the partition were read-only... I mean, what would log 
> the fact that the logs weren't logging? ;-)
> 
> best,
> d.
> 
> Peter Plessas wrote:
> > * Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> [2007-12-31 18:47]:
> >> So I made sure to mount all my drives read-only, and that everything 
> >> would start from a script on power-up. Having the whole operating system 
> >> on a Flash card/USB stick (again, no logging, read-only) is also quite 
> > 
> > How do you do that? Do you mount /var/log as ramdisk which gets erased
> > at reboot, or do you tell every service/daemon not to log?
> 
> 
> -- 
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