<div dir="ltr">Thanks. I'm going to go ahead and use rsyslog and also look into <span style="font-size:12.8px"> --log-async option. </span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Simon Kelley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@thekelleys.org.uk" target="_blank">simon@thekelleys.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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On 03/08/16 19:44, Rick Jones wrote:<br>
> On 08/03/2016 11:00 AM, John Pearson wrote:<br>
>> I'd like to send the logs to a remote server to process. I'm<br>
>> currently leaning towards using rsyslog for that.<br>
>><br>
>> I looked into --log-facility sending to remote server but doesn't<br>
>> seem to be supported.<br>
>><br>
>> Is there a better way than rsyslog? Maybe something built into<br>
>> dnsmasq that I am missing?<br>
><br>
> Just a paranoid drift, because I've been bitten by it a few times<br>
> in the past - make certain that if you do go the rsyslog path, you<br>
> ensure it is setup to never block the local logging client(s) no<br>
> matter what happens with the remote logging destination.<br>
> Otherwise, when something goes awry with the remote logging<br>
> destination the backpressure will affect the logging clients (eg<br>
> dnsmasq in this case though the times I've been bitten were with<br>
> other things).<br>
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</span>This bit me long ago, and the result was the --log-async option, which<br>
makes dnsmasq immune to backpressure from the logging system, and,<br>
more importantly, avoids deadlocks when the log daemon makes DNS<br>
queries through the local dnsmasq instance.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Simon.<br>
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> rick jones<br>
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