topic Re: syslog.conf facility customization in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

syslog.conf facility customization

Pedro Cirne — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:42:00 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to configure aditional 'facility'is syslog.conf or it's only possible to use the 'facility' mentioned in syslog man pages?

Thks

Pedro

Re: syslog.conf facility customization

Abdul Rahiman — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:53:43 GMT

Hello,

You can use the site customizable syslog facilities local0...local7 to send syslog messages via scripts and processes.
#man logger for more details.
An eg: would be, (provided u made an entry in /etc/syslog.conf as,
local0.notice /var/adm/log/test.log
# echo "this is test" | logger -i -p local0.notice -t abc

hth,
Abdul.

Re: syslog.conf facility customization

Pedro Cirne — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:57:38 GMT

Hi,

I know I can use the standard 'locale0-7' facility, but is there a way to configure additional categories of 'facility'

Thks

Pedro

Re: syslog.conf facility customization

Abdul Rahiman — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:33:41 GMT

From the man pages of syslogd,
"Known facilities and levels recognized by the syslogd daemon are those listed in /usr/include/sys/syslog_pri.h without the leading LOG_.".
so I don't think you can use additional facilites without modifying the Kernel .. I don't even know if that would be supported anyway..

Just my 2 cents,

regds,
Abdul.

Re: syslog.conf facility customization

Pedro Cirne — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:01:06 GMT

Hi,

Thanks!

Enjoy :)

Pedro