uses of curl linux command with examples

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According to various definitions in the internet, curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server. Curl supports the following protocols. DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. I was working with content delivery networks(cdn) and came across this command to get the headers related to the caching of the objects. Later when I checked the use cases, I found it very interesting. So I'm sharing the points here.

Writing logs from the port to a custom file in syslog-ng

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We are running a log server (syslog-ng). We are receiving the logs from our hardware devices on port 514. The problem is the logs were writing into "/var/log/messages". How can we write this log to a separate dedicated file. Also forwarding this log to an another log server? Its better to have a centralized log server which collects logs from all of the other ssytems. So if even one system fails we get the information from the central log server.