May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Logging with syslog
Log files related to daemons and system processes are located in the /var/log directory. These log files use a standard protocol called syslog, handled by the syslogd daemon. Every standard application makes use of syslogd to log information. This recipe describes how to use syslogd to log information from a shell script.