How Do I Know If Syslog Is Running on Linux?
Contents 2 Answers. You Can Use the Pidof Utility to Check Whether Pretty Much Any Program Is Running (If It Gives out at Least One Pid, the Program Is...
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2 Answers. You can use the pidof utility to check whether pretty much any program is running (if it gives out at least one pid, the program is running). If you are using syslog-ng, this would be pidof syslog-ng ; if you are using syslogd, it would be pidof syslogd .
How Stop syslog service in Linux?
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- copy /etc/rsyslog.conf to /tmp/rsyslog.conf.
- edit /tmp/rsyslog.conf to remove unwanted logging.
- kill rsyslogd ( /etc/init.d/rsyslogd stop )
- run rsyslogd -d -f /tmp/rsyslog.conf for the time of your “session”
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