[logs] Syslog and facilities

[Marcus J. Ranum]

saudi sans wrote:
>What is the "facility" in syslog ? The level concept is pretty intuitive.


It's used for grouping log entries. Or, that was the original intent. The
idea was that all mailers and mail-related things would log with a
mail facility, and backend processes could bucketize based on that.

Like everything else about syslogs, because there was no adequate
guidance on its use, it's pretty much useless.

mjr.