Questions about syslogd - Sun Solaris 10

UNIX Solaris
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My platform: Sun Solaris 10

I'm trying to write a script to generate different outputs for different syslogd states.

Is there any difference between "syslogd is enabled" and "syslogd is logging locally"?

Also, how do you know if syslog is logging locally?

Should I start looking in the /etc/syslog.conf file?

What's the difference between syslog and syslogd?

Thanks for reading and I hope this thread doesn't get deleted =X

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You can test syslogd/syslog using "logger", man logger.

Man Page for logger (OpenSolaris Section 1) - The UNIX and Linux Forums

Difference between syslog and syslogd, well syslog is a standard that was developed to allow computer data logging.

Syslog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Syslogd is the daemon that enables or facilitates the OS to log messages based on the configuration in syslog.conf.

Unix SA's though interchangeably use either syslog or syslogd.