Linux Logging Daemons

[Trevor]

On a RHEL 9.X system, the daemons used to log messages are systemd-journald, and rsyslogd.

Are there others?

[Blue_bird]

Yes, while systemd-journald and rsyslogd are the primary logging daemons on RHEL 9.X, there are other daemons involved in logging, including logrotate for rotating log files.

Depending on the specific services and applications running on the system, other daemons may also generate logs, such as web server daemons (e.g., httpd), database server daemons (e.g., mysqld), and various system utilities.

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[Trevor]

"...there are other daemons involved in logging, including logrotate for rotating log files."

logrotate?  A daemon?

[Blue_bird]

No, logrotate is not a daemon. It's a system utility (command-line tool) used to manage log files, specifically rotating, compressing, and deleting them. While it might be run by a daemon like cron to schedule log rotation tasks.

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