The System Logger (syslogd) and the syslog.conf File
System messages are logged to files in /var/log. The mechanism that does this is called syslogd, the system logger daemon. This daemon’s behaviors are set in /etc/syslog.conf, which defines various different log files for different services. Each service or “facility” that syslogd knows about (including auth, authpriv, console, cron, daemon, ftp, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, ntp, security, syslog, user, uucp, and local0 through local7) has a number of different “severity” levels for which you can control logging. These levels include, in decreasing order of severity, emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info and debug.
Each daemon or service that you run in FreeBSD can log through the ...
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