How to find system logging configuration information for SLES 9 and SLES 10

This TID covers how to find system logging information for Linux based systems running either syslogd or syslog-ng.

1)  Determine which logging is available on the system.

     ps aux | grep syslog

or

     rpm -qa | grep syslog


2)  For systems using syslog-ng do the following: 

man 8 syslog-ng

and

man 5 syslog-ng.conf


For systems using syslogd do the following:

man syslogd

and

man 5 syslog.conf