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1.The grey area represents standard syslogd operation. Applications such as Serviceguard’s cmcld daemon call syslog (see syslog(3C)) to send messages to syslogd. syslog writes messages to the local system’s /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and related files.
Applications also frequently have
2.The clog_tail daemon of DSAU, labeled “Log reader” in the diagram, monitors
3.The log_reader sends all new log messages to a named pipe
(log_consolidation_fifo), which is one of the log sources for
4.The
5.The local syslogd, in addition to writing log messages to the local /var/adm/syslog/ syslog.log, is configured to additionally forward all messages to the local instance of
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44 Consolidated Logging