How to find system logging configuration information for SLES 9 and SLES 10

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

Situation

This TID covers how to find system logging information for Linux based systems running either syslogd or syslog-ng.

Resolution

1) Determine which logging is available on the system.

ps aux | grep syslog

or

rpm -qa | grep syslog

2) For systems using syslog-ng do the following:

man 8 syslog-ng

and

man 5 syslog-ng.conf

For systems using syslogd do the following:

man syslogd

and

man 5 syslog.conf

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