Description:
The log-server is queried by the log-collector using a
"protocol" described in the log-collector documentation.
It will provide information from any of the log-files on it's
command-line, but no others. It is recommended that you use
the tcp_wrappers or some other form of access-control to
limit access to this server. The information may or may not
be sensitive, according to which log-files you are serving,
but letting anyone query it will mean that you will lose some
data, unless you're sure that they will only query it in test
mode.
The log-server will store context for each log-file
that is served, by default in /var/tmp/log-server-XXX
,
where XXX
is replaced by a munged version of the log-file
name. If you want this stored somewhere else, use the -p
switch or change the program.