Introduction Levels of syslog Facilities that use syslog Startup and configuration of syslog Examples of the messages generated Introduction A critical part of the system managers job is monitoring the system. Syslog allows you to encode messages by level and by facility. Syslog also allows you to forward log entries to another machine for processing, in this way syslog functions as a distributed error manager.
Different vendors follow different logging conventions.
Solaris' is probably the most disorganized by far. This is normally broadcast to all users. A condition that should be corrected immediately, such as a corrupted system database. Critical conditions, e.g., hard device errors. Conditions that are not error conditions, but should possibly be handled specially.