06-29-2015
Thank you everybody for your time and effort to help me. I believe that I now get it.
Mostly thank you bakunin, for the clarification of how syslog operates. That was also my estimation of how this daemon works, but after your comment I get it.
As a side-note, I think that the best way to continue with my assessment, as far as syslog is concerned, is to check for some critical services (e.g. login) in which message category they store what kind of messages.
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
log::dispatch::syslog
Log::Dispatch::Syslog(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Log::Dispatch::Syslog(3)
NAME
Log::Dispatch::Syslog - Object for logging to system log.
SYNOPSIS
use Log::Dispatch;
my $log =
Log::Dispatch->new
( outputs =>
[ [ 'Syslog',
min_level => 'info',
ident => 'Yadda yadda' ]
]
);
$log->emerg( "Time to die." );
DESCRIPTION
This module provides a simple object for sending messages to the system log (via UNIX syslog calls).
Note that logging may fail if you try to pass UTF-8 characters in the log message. If logging fails and warnings are enabled, the error
message will be output using Perl's "warn".
CONSTRUCTOR
The constructor takes the following parameters in addition to the standard parameters documented in Log::Dispatch::Output:
o ident ($)
This string will be prepended to all messages in the system log. Defaults to $0.
o logopt ($)
A string containing the log options (separated by any separator you like). See the openlog(3) and Sys::Syslog docs for more details.
Defaults to ''.
o facility ($)
Specifies what type of program is doing the logging to the system log. Valid options are 'auth', 'authpriv', 'cron', 'daemon', 'kern',
'local0' through 'local7', 'mail, 'news', 'syslog', 'user', 'uucp'. Defaults to 'user'
o socket ($)
Tells what type of socket to use for sending syslog messages. Valid options are listed in "Sys::Syslog".
If you don't provide this, then we let "Sys::Syslog" simply pick one that works, which is the preferred option, as it makes your code
more portable.
AUTHOR
Dave Rolsky, <autarch@urth.org>
perl v5.12.1 2009-09-22 Log::Dispatch::Syslog(3)