syslog

syslog

syslog

logread

Show messages in syslogd’s circular buffer.

logd

a deamon creating /dev/log socket, forwarding kernel messages & providing ubus log object (with read and write commands).

syslogd

Who logs? The syslogd acts as the server and any program can act as the client and send log messages to it. For example logger can be used to manually write messages to the system log. Some scripts in /etc/init.d/ actually use this.

logger

logger makes entries in the system log.