A-154Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
NAME
syslog.conf - syslogd configuration file
DESCRIPTION
The syslog.conf file is the configuration file for the syslogd daemon (see
syslogd). It consists of lines with two TAB separated fields:
selector action
The selector field specifies the types of messages and priorities to which the line
applies. The action field specifies the action to be taken if a message the syslogd
daemon receives matches the selection criteria.
The selector field is encoded as a facility, a period (.), and a level , with no inter-
vening white-space. Both the facility and the level are case insensitive.
The facility describes the part of the system generating the message, and is one
of the following keywords: auth, cron, daemon and kern. Heres a short descrip-
tion of each facil_ity keyword:
kern Messages generated by the filer kernel.
daemon System daemons, such as the rshd daemon (see rshd), the routing
daemon (see routed), the SNMP daemon (see snmpd), etc.
auth The authentication system, e.g. messages logged for Telnet
sessions.
cron The systems internal cron facility.
The level describes the severity of the message, and is a keyword from the fol-
lowing ordered list (higher to lower): emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice,
info, and debug.
Here is a short description of each level keyword:
emerg A panic condition that results in the disruption of normal service.
alert A condition that should be corrected immediately, such as a failed
disk.
crit Critical conditions, such as hard disk errors.
err Errors, such as those resulting from a bad configuration file.
warning Warning messages.
notice Conditions that are not error conditions, but that may require spe-
cial handling.
info Informational messages, such as the hourly uptime message (see
uptime).
syslog.conf