Hi list, I want to log things remotely (from a consumer-grade router running linux that keeps dying on me). I think the proper way to do this is to do "syslogd -u" but I am not sure because the manpage only vaguely mentions how insecure the -u option is and doesn't really explain it. I've found a page that describes using -u for OS X, and the linux manpage for sysklogd has a -r. RFC 3164 says "syslog uses the user datagram protocol (UDP) [1] as its underlying transport layer mechanism" so it seems like this is correct, but it seems odd.
If I just run syslogd like this on my home LAN what are the risks I need to think about? I can't think of any except maybe that if someone can get into the LAN then they can fill up my disks. What other network logging 'solutions' are there, if any? Google only seems to know about syslog and IIS. Regards -Nick
