SYSLOG alert facilities

This table lists the SYSLOG facilities that you can select.

SYSLOG facilities

Facility

Description

AUTH

A message associated with SECURITY and authorization.

AUTHPRIV

A restricted access message associated with SECURITY and authorization. On many systems, these messages are forwarded to a secure file.

CONSOLE

An alert message.

CRON

A message generated by the CLOCK DAEMON.

SYSLOG servers that run a Linux operating system use the CRON facility.

DAEMON

A message generated by a system DAEMON.

FTP

A message generated by the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) DAEMON.

KERN

A message generated by the kernel. On many systems, these messages are printed to the CONSOLE when they appear.

LOCAL0-LOCAL7

A message generated by an internal process.

LPR

A message generated by the printing subsystem.

MAIL

A message generated by a MAIL system.

NEWS

A message generated by the network NEWS subsystem.

NTP

A message generated by the Network Time Protocol (NTP) DAEMON.

SECURITY

A message generated by the audit subsystem.

SOLARIS-CRON

A message generated by the CLOCK DAEMON.

SYSLOG servers that run a Windows operating system use the CLOCK facility.

SYSLOG

A message generated by the SYSLOG DAEMON.

USER

A message generated by a USER-level process.

UUCP

A message generated by the Unix-to-Unix Copy Program (UUCP) subsystem.