Solaris

can anyone explain what is syslogd daemon in solaris. What is the use and how to start and stop the syslogd.

Syslogd is a demon which is responsible for system log. The configurations file for this demon is /etc/syslog.conf

If you are in solaris 10 then the smf for this service is svc:/system/system-log:default. Which you can start and stop with svcadm command.

Thanks a lot for ur reply. am in solaris 10 only. can you send me the full command to start and stop the daemon. is it possib to stop from remote host>?

You need to check if the demon is running or not that's you can do with
#ps -ef|grep syslod

if you get some thing like below

bash-3.00# ps -ef|grep syslogd
root 13047 1 0 11:25:48 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd

means the required service for the demon is running.

Before starting or stopping check the service status , which you can check with
#svcs -a|grep system-log:default

If its shows disable then you can start with
# svcadm -v enable svc:/system/system-log:default