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  • Well, ok for the answer, but the command to use could depend on the OS, and in Linux from the particular distro. For example it will not works on Debian/Ubuntu, which use rsyslog. Commented Sep 5, 2011 at 17:45
  • The OP specified he is using syslog, not rsyslog or syslog-ng. Commented Sep 5, 2011 at 18:00
  • I am not so sure he intended so: the log file is called syslog also on Debian, but the daemon producing it is rsyslogd. And the service is often referred to generically as syslog. Commented Sep 5, 2011 at 18:06