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System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

ProcedureHow to Customize System Message Logging

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

    Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. Edit the /etc/syslog.conf file, adding or changing message sources, priorities, and message locations according to the syntax described in syslog.conf(4).

  3. Exit the file, saving the changes.

Example 15–2 Customizing System Message Logging

This sample /etc/syslog.conf user.emerg facility sends user emergency messages to root and individual users.


user.emerg                                      `root, *'