suse man page for syslog

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)