[Fwd: [VTLUUG] to all ye *nix admins ... (fwd)]

[Greg Woods <woods @ ucar . edu>]

> wanted to be able to separate the messages in to different log files (and
> directories) based on the remote host sending the log message.  So I
> initially wrote a shell script to parse the logs daily.
> 
> I wasn't really satisfied with that solution, so I did some searching
> online for a free/open-source solution that separated logs based on the
> source address.  I couldn't find anything.

Syslog-ng can do this, that is what I use. 

http://www.balabit.hu/en/downloads/syslog-ng/

--greg