What are some of the valid codes for the facility value? What do they generally mean?
- auth - security/authorization related
- authpriv - privilege related
- cron - cron job related
- daemon - servers/processes that aren't covered by a more specific facilitiy
- kern - kernel related
- lpr -
- mail - used for mail servers and other mail-processing tools
- mark - reserved for internal use
- news - server update/news related
- security - identical to auth, though auth is the preferred facility
- syslog - related to the system logging daemon
- user - user related
- uucp - printing related
- local0 through local7
Asterisk * is a wildcard for all facilities, while the . character can be used to select multiple facilities.
Tags: 101.1, facilities, linux, logs, syslog
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Author: Ryan Robson
Main topic: Informatics
Topic: Linux
City: Houston
Published: 08.02.2011
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