msglog(7D)

Name | Synopsis | Description | Attributes | See Also | Notes

Name

msglog– message output collection from system startup or background applications

Synopsis

/dev/msglog 

Description

Output from system startup (“rc”) scripts is directed to /dev/msglog, which dispatches it appropriately.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWcsr
Interface Stability	Stable

See Also

syslogd(1M), syslog(3C), attributes(5), sysmsg(7D)

Notes

In the current version of Solaris, /dev/msglog is an alias for /dev/sysmsg. In future versions of Solaris, writes to /dev/msglog may be directed into a more general logging mechanism such as syslogd(1M).

syslog(3C) provides a more general logging mechanism than /dev/msglog and should be used in preference to /dev/msglog whenever possible.

Name | Synopsis | Description | Attributes | See Also | Notes