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IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Administration
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IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Administration

by Christian Pruett, Kristian Strickland, Scott Vetter
December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
10h 4m
English
IBM Redbooks
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3.9. The system log

To log system messages, AIX uses syslogd. The syslogd daemon reads a datagram socket and sends each message line to a destination described by the /etc/syslog.conf configuration file. The syslogd daemon reads the configuration file when it is activated and when it receives a hang-up signal.

The syslogd daemon creates the /etc/syslog.pid file. This file contains a single line with the command process ID of the syslogd daemon. It is used to end or reconfigure the syslogd daemon.

A terminate signal sent to the syslogd daemon ends the daemon. The syslogd daemon logs the end-signal information and terminates immediately.

Each message is one line. A message can contain a priority code marked by a digit enclosed in angle braces ...

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