Hi,
Thanks to everyone who resonded to my query, just about everyone had the
same reply. The concensus was to use syslog to log the messages to the
LOGHOST, as described by Michael Price below.
>Dear Kerry,
> There sure is better way to do this. In the /etc directory
>there is file called syslog.conf. If you read this file you will
>see something like the following.
>
>#auth.notice ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/authlog, @loghost)
>
>This means that you can log messages to a host called loghost.
>
>So these are the steps.
>
>1. Define a host called loghost ( This will be your machine)
>
>2. Edit the syslog.conf files on the dungeon machines to log console
>messages to your machime loghost.
>
>3. Restart the syslog daemons on each machine.
>
>And thats all there is to it.
>
>If you have troubles lokk at the man pages for syslog.conf and syslogd
>
>Good Luck
>
>Michael Price
>IWS Contracting
>Sydney Australia
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