Chapter 34. System Logging

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Configuration of the syslog daemon

Understanding of standard facilities, priorities, and actions

Configuration of logrotate

Awareness of rsyslog and syslog-ng

syslog.conf

syslogd

klogd

/var/log/

logger

logrotate

/etc/logrotate.conf

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