Centralized Logging with a Web Interface

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a web interface to the logs on your central log server? Well, dream no more because this one is a reality thanks to LogAnalyzer (aka phplogcon). Let's take a look at how to setup both it and its suggested syslog variant, rsyslog, on a central log server. We will approach this from the perspectives of both Gentoo where rsyslog is not the default (nor is anything else) and Ubuntu 10.04 LTSwhich is already using rsyslog as the defacto logger. It is also worth mentioning that, according to the rsyslog site, Fedora also now defaults to rsyslog.