Installation guide

Facility Description
kern
Messages generated by the kernel. These messages cannot be
generated by any user process.
user
Messages generated by user processes. This is the default facility.
mail
Messages generated by the mail system.
daemon
Messages generated by the system daemons.
auth
Messages generated by the authorization system (for example:
login, su, and getty).
lpr
Messages generated by the line printer spooling system (for
example: lpr, lpc, and lpd).
local0
Reserved for local use, along with local1 to local7.
mark
Receives a message of priority info every 20 minutes, unless a
different interval is specified with the syslogd
−m option.
msgbuf
Kernel syslog message buffer recovered from a system crash. The
savecore command and the syslogd daemon use the msgbuf
facility to recover system event messages from a crash.
*
Messages generated by all parts of the system.
You can specify the following severity levels, which are listed in order of
highest to lowest severity:
Severity Level Description
emerg or panic
A panic condition. You can broadcast these messages to all
users.
alert
A condition that you should immediately correct, such as a
corrupted system database.
crit
A critical condition, such as a hard device error.
err
Error messages.
warning or warn
Warning messages.
notice
Conditions that are not error conditions, but are handled
as special cases.
info
Informational messages.
debug
Messages containing information that is used to debug a
program.
none
Disables a specific facility’s messages.
You can specify the following message destinations:
Administering Events and Errors 13–5