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what is syslog?
- Thread starter farley99
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Syslog is a logging daemon that many services write information to. FOr instance kernel messages are logged to the syslog daemon. Default linux distro uses /var/log/messages as the output file.
You can log lots of information and how you want the information. For instance you can redirect syslog from one machine to another, so all your servers can log there messages to 1 server and you can monitor that one server.
Very handy.
The default config file should be /etc/syslogd.conf
>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com
You can log lots of information and how you want the information. For instance you can redirect syslog from one machine to another, so all your servers can log there messages to 1 server and you can monitor that one server.
Very handy.
The default config file should be /etc/syslogd.conf
>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com
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