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Operating Systems Linux SuSE How do I make activities appear in SYSLOG file? Post 302945895 by JDBA on Thursday 4th of June 2015 11:40:51 AM
Old 06-04-2015
How do I make activities appear in SYSLOG file?

SUSE Linux 11 and 10 SP3.

I am trying to capture some of my activities in SYSLOG file, /var/log/messages.

To do this I created and dropped some test files and directories and users. But these activities are not captured in /var/log/messages. What should I do to make these activities appear in /var/log/messages file?


I see /var/log/audit/audit.log file in /etc/audit/auditd.conf
Is /var/log/audit/audit.log file another SYSLOG file?

I don't see my activities in both /var/log/messages and /var/log/audit/audit.log files.

Thank you,

Last edited by rbatte1; 06-05-2015 at 06:52 AM.. Reason: Removed all the font & colour settings, corrected log file to have leading / and set formatting where appropriate
 

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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)
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