Hi, I'm fooling around with my home network and I'd like some opinions on what syslogger to use with mandrake 9.1 and some ideas on how to use it. Syslog-ng comes packaged with mandrake and I'm having trouble understanding how to configure it.
Why?
I've got a netgear router with 1 winXP and 1 (mostly)mandrake9.1 boxes and I'm interested in this stuff.
syslogd is running on mandrake for local system logging, and I installed syslog-ng just to read the logs off the router remotely, even though I can read the logs of the router on the configuration browser screen. (I just checked and syslogd is no longer running, only syslog-ng)

I tried to follow the concepts in the syslog-ng.conf file but I must have totally mis-understood them because it didn't work.
I created a file in /var/log called netgear.log to log to it, I've set the router to syslog to the ip address of the linux box.

has anyone any experience with sysloggers and their configuration.
If I can get this right I'll then try it in windows.

thanks.