config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSLOG_NG prompt "syslog-ng......................... A powerful syslog daemon" tristate default m if CONFIG_DEVEL select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOL help syslog-ng reads and logs messages to the system console, log files, other machines and/or users as specified by its configuration file. The configuration file is read at startup and is reread after receipt of a hangup (HUP) signal. When reloading the configuration file, all destination files are closed and reopened as appropriate. For more information about the configuration file, see syslog-ng.conf(5). Typically messages are sent to syslog-ng via a Unix domain socket (/dev/log) or via UDP, to port 514 or to whatever syslog/udp is defined to be in /etc/services. To receive messages from the kernel, /dev/klog is opened for reading. Messages sent to syslog-ng should be an entire line, prefixed by a pri- ority code in between '<' and '>'. Definititions of the recognised values can be found in the include file . syslog-ng can be configured to pass messages on to other syslog-ng's and when doing so, it sends the message on with the priority as a pre- fix. http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/