98Communications Server for z/OS V1R8 TCP/IP Implementation Volume 2: Standard Applications
2.1 Overview
Syslogd is one of the standard applications provided with the z/OS Communications Server.
The relationship of syslogd to applications and to other hosts for which it provides logging
services is illustrated in Figure 2-1.
Figure 2-1 syslogd relationship to applications for which it logs information
2.1.1 Basic concepts
The syslog daemon accepts messages from applications or another syslog daemon on
another host and writes the messages to the proper files (on this host) or to the syslog
daemon on yet another host, as directed by the syslog configur ...
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