1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgment: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" from: @(#)syslogd.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" $NetBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.8 1998/04/28 06:00:58 fair Exp $ 34.\" 35.Dd June 6, 1993 36.Dt SYSLOGD 8 37.Os BSD 4.2 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm syslogd 40.Nd log systems messages 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl d 44.Op Fl f Ar config_file 45.Op Fl m Ar mark_interval 46.Op Fl p Ar log_socket 47.Op Fl s 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49.Nm 50reads and logs messages to the system console, log files, other 51machines and/or users as specified by its configuration file. 52The options are as follows: 53.Bl -tag -width Ds 54.It Fl d 55Enable debugging to the standard output, 56and do not disassociate from the controlling terminal. 57.It Fl f 58Specify the pathname of an alternative configuration file; 59the default is 60.Pa /etc/syslog.conf . 61.It Fl m 62Select the number of minutes between ``mark'' messages; 63the default is 20 minutes. 64.It Fl s 65Select ``secure'' mode, in which syslogd does not open a UDP socket but 66only communicates over a 67.Ux 68domain socket. 69This is valuable when the machine on 70which syslogd runs is subject to attack over the network and it is desired 71that the machine be protected from attempts to remotely fill logs 72and similar attacks. 73.It Fl p 74Specify the pathname of an alternative log socket; 75the default is 76.Pa /dev/log . 77.El 78.Pp 79.Nm 80reads its configuration file when it starts up and whenever it 81receives a hangup signal. 82For information on the format of the configuration file, 83see 84.Xr syslog.conf 5 . 85.Pp 86.Nm 87reads messages from the 88.Ux 89domain socket 90.Pa /dev/log , 91from an Internet domain socket specified in 92.Pa /etc/services , 93and from the special device 94.Pa /dev/klog 95(to read kernel messages). 96.Pp 97.Nm 98creates the file 99.Pa /var/run/syslog.pid , 100and stores its process 101id there. 102This can be used to kill or reconfigure 103.Nm "" . 104.Pp 105The message sent to 106.Nm 107should consist of a single line. 108The message can contain a priority code, which should be a preceding 109decimal number in angle braces, for example, 110.Sq Aq 5. 111This priority code should map into the priorities defined in the 112include file 113.Aq Pa sys/syslog.h . 114.Sh FILES 115.Bl -tag -width /var/run/syslog.pid -compact 116.It Pa /etc/syslog.conf 117The configuration file. 118.It Pa /var/run/syslog.pid 119The process id of current 120.Nm "" . 121.It Pa /dev/log 122Name of the 123.Ux 124domain datagram log socket. 125.It Pa /dev/klog 126The kernel log device. 127.El 128.Sh SEE ALSO 129.Xr logger 1 , 130.Xr syslog 3 , 131.Xr services 5 , 132.Xr syslog.conf 5 133.Sh HISTORY 134The 135.Nm 136command appeared in 137.Bx 4.3 . 138