Getting install log on a remote machine

[R P Herrold]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Klaus Steden wrote:

> What about a dual-pronged approach? The first being updating Anaconda to
> support the syslog API, the second being to provide a 'logger' command in
> bootstrap that can be called by kickstart itself, like the one used on FBSD,
> like this:
>
> 	logger -t kickstart -p local7.warn @loghost \
>	"Could not find /install/foobar.rpm to install!"
>
> or something like that.

I do not see the '@loghost' option in the man page of the 
util-linux-2.12a-16 derived 'logger', nor does it work 
locally.

Interesting concept to be able to specify the syslog server 
directly in an end user accessible command -- remote DoS 
attack vectors spring unbidden to mind.

- Russ Herrold