Keith Keller wrote: <snip>
Specifically, man syslog.conf for that file's syntax; man syslogd talks more about its invocation and signalling.
And the difference can be *very* important. For example, last night, one of our servers had a h/d crap out, and dropped to ro. However, all of them copy the log entries to a log server, so from *there* we could see the drive errors happening.
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