Let's start with the agent daemon parameters. For the parameters that're also available for other daemons, we'll discuss their relevance to all of the daemons here:
- PidFile: This is common to all daemons. They write the PID of the main process in this file. The default configuration files use /tmp for simplicity's sake. In production systems, this should be set to the distribution recommended location.
- LogType: This is common to all daemons and can be a file, syslog, or console. The default is file and, in that case, the LogFile parameter determines where the logs are written. The syslog value directs the daemon to log to syslog, and the console parameter tells it to log the messages to stdout.
