draft - receiving logs but not to a seperated file just yet
on the netbsd server
mkdir /var/log/centralized/ vi /etc/syslog.conf # # DIY CENTRALIZED LOG SERVER # +host1 *.* /var/log/centralized/host1
enable daemon listen on UDP and apply
vi /etc/rc.conf syslogd_flags="" /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart
first test that the log server is reachable
ping 10.1.0.99 nmap -sU -p 514 10.1.0.99 logger --rfc3164 --udp --server 10.1.0.99 --priority warn test-warning logger --udp --server 10.1.0.99 --priority warn test-warning
on the client(s) - assuming sysklogd
vi /etc/syslog.conf *.warn @10.1.0.99 rc.syslog restart
https://man.netbsd.org/syslogd.8
https://man.netbsd.org/syslog.conf.5
https://troglobit.com/post/2019-11-03-bsd-syslogd-in-linux/
https://github.com/troglobit/sysklogd/
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sysklogd
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2031163/when-to-use-the-different-log-levels ==> warn vs. error: gets sysadmin out of bed