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I have an application that creates it's own log file on a linux server.  I would like to have the logs it produces sent to my central log server.  How can I accomplish that?  I am running syslog-ng on the central log server.

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There are two ways you can do that:

If you have syslog-ng running on the client systems, you can add an entry like this:
source s_tail { file("myapp.log" follow_freq(1) flags(no-parse)); };

Then, send that to your central server.

Otherwise, you could try this:

tail -f myapp.log | sed -e 's/^/<133>/' | nc syslog-ng-server 514