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syslog(1)						      General Commands Manual							 syslog(1)

NAME
syslog - enables and disables printing to the console device, /dev/console, by the syslogd daemon. SYNOPSIS
syslog [console_on | console_off] OPERANDS
The arguments to this command are as follows: Starts printing to the console by the syslogd daemon. Stops printing to the console by the syslogd daemon. DESCRIPTION
Under certain circumstances you may need to control the volume of information messages displayed on the console device. The syslog command enables you to control the syslogd daemon's capability to print messages to the console device. Starting the syslogd daemon with the -s option has the same effect as using the following command: syslog console_off. You must be root user to execute this command and the command will fail with no errors for any unauthorized user. The information is still logged in a log file, providing that logging is enabled on your system. FILES
SEE ALSO
Commands: syslogd(8) Functions: syslog(3) syslog(1)

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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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