SYSLOG(8)

💅 SYSLOG(8) — System Logging ✨

okay so this page is from the SYSLOG manual, section 8 (that's the admin/system-stuff section, iykyk), and it's literally all about the system logging service bestie 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

syslog — the system logging service. that's it. that's the whole vibe. logs go brrr 📝

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ — there are a few different syslog daemon implementations that can act as your system's syslog service, and right now the roster is:

• syslogd
• rsyslogd
• syslog-ng

which one you get as your default lowkey depends on the software selection you made during installation 🎀 so yeah, it's giving "choose your fighter" but at install time.

every single syslog-daemon ships its own service file, bestie, and they are:

• syslogd.service
• rsyslogd.service
• syslog-ng.service

💀 only one syslog-daemon can be installed at a time — no sharing, no polyamory, one daemon only.

and when it's installed, it activates itself as the syslog service by creating the syslog.service alias. that's the common name you use to start/stop it, query its status, and reload the daemon while log rotation is happening 🔁 iconic behavior honestly.

the /etc/sysconfig/syslog file contains several variables that let you specify additional settings — stuff like start parameters for the daemon, or additional chroot log sockets 🧚 the yast2 sysconfig module gives you a comfy cozy way to change these settings, no manual editing required ✨

now, history time 🕰️ — starting with openSUSE-12.3, the SYSLOG_DAEMON variable (which was used to select the daemon back in the day) has been removed. also removed: SYSLOG_REQUIRES_NETWORK. now each daemon just declares in its own service file whether the network will be started before syslog or not. she's independent, she speaks for herself 💅

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🐛 BUGS 🐛

found a bug? please report it at <http://bugs.opensuse.org> — they wanna know, fr fr 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

the masterminds behind this page, no cap:

• Juergen Weigert <jw@suse.com>
• Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.com>
• Marius Tomaschewski <mt@suse.com>

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go down the rabbit hole bestie, these are all connected:

sysklogd(8) syslogd(8) syslog.conf(5) syslog-ng(8) syslog-ng.conf(5) rsyslogd(8) rsyslog.conf(5)

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💜 this one's syslog, dated May 2008, and it's the SYSLOG(8) page — go log something iconic today, bestie 🌈⭐