Hello,

I need a few information/explanation about system messages, syslog.conf file and syslogd daemon.
My problem is the following: I would like to log all system messages related to hardware problems into a particular file. For that, i have to add an entry in the syslog.conf file.
I know that i must add a line of the following type in the syslog.conf file:

facility.level /..../hardware.log

The problem is: what to put in the facility field (kern?, daemon? or something else).
Another problem is: once the configuration file has been modified, do i have to restart the syslogd daemon in order to have my modification taken into account?
The last question is: once the hardware related system messages will be logged in the file "hardware.log" what will they look like?

Thanks in advance for any answer