what is LOCAL0 through LOCAL7 ?
 

hey, can somebody here explain me what is LOCAL0 through LOCAL7?

Thanks,

man syslog.conf

hey, i checked syslog.conf already, but i don't see any mention to LOCAL.

Oh! another thing that need an explaination again.

what is named pipes? i saw somewhere FIFO is refered to as named pipes?

what is that?

That's a tough one ... Named Pipes

anyway, can somebody help me with the LOCAL?


Thanks,

rsyslog.conf file
 

the /etc/rsyslog.conf file exists in the BSD and linux distributions
in contrast to the SYSV-driven systems such as HP-UX and Solaris which use the file /etc/syslog.conf

the rsyslog.conf is the configuration file of /sbin/rsyslogd
you can find out about local0 to 7 by

man rsyslog.conf

local0-local7
 

another thing is that :
local0-local7 are local facilities defined by the user, to log specific deamons

for example:
you can change the sshd_config file ( which is the configuration file of the sshd deamon )
from
Syslogfacility authpriv
to
Syslogfacility local7

and add the following line in the /etc/rsyslog.conf file
local7.* /var/log/sshd.log
after restarting rsyslogd and sshd, any ssh sessions to the server will be logged in the /var/log/sshd.log file

Local0 to local7 can be personalized as above
 

But the default is already included in /etc/rsyslog.conf

# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.* /var/log/boot.log