Data Logging Using Syslog

# Options to syslogd
# -m 0 disables 'MARK' messages.
# -r enables logging from remote machines
# -x disables DNS lookups on messages recieved with -r
# See syslogd(8) for more details

SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0 -r"

# Options to klogd
# -2 prints all kernel oops messages twice; once for klogd to decode, and
#    once for processing with 'ksymoops'
# -x disables all klogd processing of oops messages entirely
# See klogd(8) for more details

KLOGD_OPTIONS="-x"

#
SYSLOG_UMASK=077
# set this to a umask value to use for all log files as in umask(1).
# By default, all permissions are removed for "group" and "other".

/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart

# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.*							/dev/console

# Save syslog and remote info messages to syslog
syslog.*;local2.=info;user.*				/var/log/syslog

#Save syslog and remote alert info to syslogalert
local0.notice						/var/log/syslog.alert

# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;local0.none;auth.none	/var/log/messages

# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.*;auth.*						/var/log/secure

# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*							-/var/log/maillog


# Log cron stuff
cron.*							/var/log/cron

# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg							*

# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit						/var/log/spooler

# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*							/var/log/boot.log