10-09-2012
Usually, the defaults are fine until you start debugging a problem. You can turn everything on for a new file for a limited time, and see what you do not want, turn that off and try again. Syslog is used by any application that thinks it is appropriate, but usually daemons of some sort, so it can be hard to generalize. Some tags are explicitly for detailed debug messages.
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SYSLOG(8) System Logging SYSLOG(8)
NAME
syslog-ng, syslogd
DESCRIPTION
There are different syslog daemon implementations supported as the system's syslog service, currently syslogd, syslog-ng and rsyslogd
The first installed daemon activates itself for the syslog service. Starting with openSUSE-11.2, it is rsyslogd, before it was syslog-ng.
But this depends on the software selection during the installation.
The name of the daemon used as syslog service is specified in the
SYSLOG_DAEMON variable in /etc/sysconfig/syslog.
The yast2 sysconfig module provides a comfortable way to switch to another installed daemon and restart the service.
The /etc/init.d/syslog init script is able to handle all supported daemons.
BUGS
Please report bugs at <http://www.suse.de/feedback>
AUTHOR
Juergen Weigert <jw@novell.com>
Marius Tomaschewski <mt@novell.com>
SEE ALSO
sysklogd(8) syslogd(8) syslog.conf(5) syslog-ng(8) syslog-ng.conf(5) rsyslogd(8) rsyslog.conf(5)
syslog May 2008 SYSLOG(8)