The syslog deamon (syslogd) on Unix systems provides message logging for other services so that each service doesn’t have to duplicate the same basic functionality to manage logging for itself.

I'm trying to figure out why I don't see any log data in /var/log/firewall. That's my syslogd destination for kern.warn - the default facility and priority for iptables logging. To test, I've ...

By default, klogd directs log messages from the kernel to the system logger, which is why most people don't need to worry about klogd. You can control the handling of kernel messages by editing the ...

Topic ===== A buffer overflow in syslogd can lead to a DoS attack. Problem Description =================== Under certain conditions involving a buffer overrun, the IRIX syslogd can be made to crash.

To add logging to your ftp service, for example, you would add the -l option (logs each FTP session to syslogd) or the -L option (logs all commands sent to in.ftpd to syslogd).

Weird Problem w/ syslogd and /dev/log Tom Oct 13, 2002 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...