`nsyslogd` - New Syslog Daemon

nsyslogd is a freeware replacement for the standard Unix syslog daemon which provides many additional features.

Download `nsyslogd`

The current version of nsyslogd is nsyslogd-0.3 beta.

nsyslogd is currently available only as source code. In the future, Encap packages will be made available.

nsyslogd offers the following features:

Transferring log messages via TCP, in addition to UDP.
Queuing messages for later delivery when a remote loghost is down.
Uses the TCP Wrapper library (libwrap) for access control.
Filtering log messages based on source host, regular expression match, and/or very flexible facility/priority matching.
Writing log messages to gzip-format compressed files, pipes to external programs, etc.
Supports printf()-style escape tokens for message and filename formatting.

Here are some of the features and changes planned for future releases of nsyslogd:

New "default" filter type which is true when a message has not been successfully delivered to any other destination.
Allow special source tag "all" to be listed in a channel block.
Manpages.

Older versions of nsyslogd are available in source form:

Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>