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mikulus
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 Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject: Syslog and LOCAL facilities |
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I have a generic question I am hoping someone can answer. What is the purpose of local0 through local7 facilities in syslog.conf file? I know that you can configure syslog to log local0 to a separate log file such as: | Code: | | local0.* /var/log/local0.log |
My question is how do I assosiate particular service with a particullar facility? For example if I wanted to log all nightly backup job messages to local5, how is this done? Or, are all local* facilities already assigned to particular services? If, so where can I find information on which services it is associated with? I tred Googling but all info I could find is very generic and I couldn't find a satisfactory explanation.
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grimm26
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certain applications will let you specify the syslog facility that they log to (like ssh and named). Others are hard coded to what facility they use. If you have backup jobs that you have cron'd nightly, you can use the logger command to send log messages to any syslog facility that you please.
In addition, you can get even greater granularity by using something like syslog-ng with which you can filter logs based on just about anything.
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