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

Read the man page for syslog.conf - it is VERY informative.

Try kern.warning for the facility.level. Most hardware errors should be seen with this (realize you may still get errors that you don't see - from all the questions you have been asking about syslog and hardware errors, you have some of the other tools available that you need).

Yes, changes to the syslog.conf require you to send a hup signal to the daemon - just find the pid and use the following command replacing xxx with the pid
# kill -HUP xxx

What will the messages look like - hard to say. Each should have the following format:
date time hostname tag[pid]: message