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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syslog.h
syslog.h(3HEAD) Headers syslog.h(3HEAD)
NAME
syslog.h, syslog - definitions for system error logging
SYNOPSIS
#include <syslog.h>
DESCRIPTION
The <syslog.h> header defines the following symbolic constants, zero or more of which can be OR'ed together to form the logopt option of
openlog():
LOG_PID Log the process ID with each message.
LOG_CONS Log to the system console on error.
LOG_NDELAY Connect to syslog daemon immediately.
LOG_ODELAY Delay open until syslog() is called.
LOG_NOWAIT Do not wait for child processes.
The following symbolic constants are defined as possible values of the facility argument to openlog():
LOG_KERN reserved for message generated by the system
LOG_USER message generated by a process
LOG_MAIL reserved for message generated by mail system
LOG_NEWS reserved for message generated by news system
LOG_UUCP reserved for message generated by UUCP system
LOG_DAEMON reserved for message generated by system daemon
LOG_AUTH reserved for message generated by authorization daemon
LOG_CRON reserved for message generated by clock daemon
LOG_LPR reserved for message generated by printer system
LOG_LOCAL0 reserved for local use
LOG_LOCAL1 reserved for local use
LOG_LOCAL2 reserved for local use
LOG_LOCAL3 reserved for local use
LOG_LOCAL4 reserved for local use
LOG_LOCAL5 reserved for local use
LOG_LOCAL6 reserved for local use
LOG_LOCAL7 reserved for local use
The following is declared as a macro for constructing the maskpri argument to setlogmask(). The following macro expands to an expression of
type int when the argument pri is an expre ssion of type int:
LOG_MASK(pri) a mask for priority pri
The following constants are defined as possible values for the priority argument of syslog():
LOG_EMERG A panic condition was reported to all processes.
LOG_ALERT A condition that should be corrected immediately.
LOG_CRIT A critical condition.
LOG_ERR An error message.
LOG_WARNING A warning message.
LOG_NOTICE A condition requiring special handling.
LOG_INFO A general information message.
LOG_DEBUG A message useful for debugging programs.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
syslog(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)
SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2003 syslog.h(3HEAD)