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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
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
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