compbio/d-syslog repository overview

#USAGE:

#Make a dockerized syslog container, and pass all logs to this

1. syslog Container-- Run the syslog container, here all the logs will be gathered, when syslog starts it creates /dev/log which will now be in the mounted host dir /tmp/syslogdev:

   docker run --name syslog -d -v /tmp/syslogdev:/dev syslog

2. Log generating container -- Start one or more containers which generate logs to the rsyslogd:

   docker run --name foo -v /tmp/syslogdev/log:/dev/log ubuntu logger hello

3. (a) Inspection Container -- Tail them logs:

   docker run --name seelog --volumes-from syslog ubuntu tail -f /var/log/syslog

4. (b) Alternatively, as of docker v1.3 use the docker-exec command to inspect syslog container directly docker exec -t syslog tail -f /var/log/syslog

5. See in the log message from "foo", show up in the "seelog" container.