Facility Levels
Valid facility names are: auth, authpriv (for security information of a sensitive nature), cron, daemon, ftp, kern, lpr, mail, news, security (deprecated synonym for auth), syslog, user, uucp, and local0 to local7, inclusive.
Facility levels are defined by RFC 3164
The list of Facilities available
|
Facility Number |
Facility Description |
| 0 | kernel messages |
| 1 | user-level messages |
| 2 | mail system |
| 3 | system daemons |
| 4 | security/authorization messages |
| 5 | messages generated internally by syslogd |
| 6 | line printer subsystem |
| 7 | network news subsystem |
| 8 | UUCP subsystem |
| 9 | clock daemon |
| 10 | security/authorization messages |
| 11 | FTP daemon |
| 12 | NTP subsystem |
| 13 | log audit |
| 14 | log alert |
| 15 | clock daemon |
| 16 | local use 0 (local0) |
| 17 | local use 1 (local1) |
| 18 | local use 2 (local2) |
| 19 | local use 3 (local3) |
| 20 | local use 4 (local4) |
| 21 | local use 5 (local5) |
| 22 | local use 6 (local6) |
| 23 | local use 7 (local7) |