Security Portal: Ask Buffy - Unencrypted TCP Logging Application and Hiding the Web Server Identity

"I am in the process of planning a central logging facility for systems scattered around the world. What alternatives to using UNIX syslog should I be looking at? The log server is likely to be a *BSD or Linux machine but could be Solaris...."

"I was looking for a way to change the header to hide the Web server's identity....Did you find a way to change that information?..."

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