syslogd.1m (2010 09)

syslogd(1M) syslogd(1M)

WARNINGS

A conﬁguration ﬁle selector selects all messages at the speciﬁed level or higher . The conﬁguration lines:

user.debug /tmp/logfile

user.info /tmp/logfile

cause the logﬁle to get two copies of all

user messages at level info and above.

Kernel panic messages are not sent to

syslogd

All HP-UX kernel messages are treated as if they had the

crit priority level.

syslogd is invoked with the -D

option and syslogd terminates abnormally, kernel messages will

not appear on the system console. In that case, reinvoke

syslogd without the -D option to enable the

kernel to send its messages to the system console.

syslogd does not support logging to named pipes. Therefore, if a named pipe is speciﬁed in the

conﬁguration ﬁle, the behavior of

syslogd is undeﬁned, and syslogd may lose messages if blocked or

terminated on a

SIGPIPE.

syslogd does not support long user and group names on the current release, HP-UX 11i V3.

syslogd logs messages in a locale-independent fashion.

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syslogd assumes that ASCII control characters do not form intermediate bytes of the charac-

ters of a multibyte locale.

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syslogd truncates the last character when the maximum length of the message LINE_MAX is

reached, even though it is a valid multibyte character.

AUTHOR

syslogd was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

FILES

/dev/klog The kernel log device

/dev/log The named pipe on which syslogd reads log messages

/dev/log.un The UNIX domain socket on which syslogd reads log messages

/etc/syslog.conf Conﬁguration ﬁle

/etc/default/syslogd

Conﬁguration ﬁle for maximum log size

/var/run/syslog.pid

Process ID