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A critical part of the system administrator's job is monitoring the system. Solaris uses the syslog message facility to do this. syslogd is the daemon responsible for capturing system messages. The messages can be warnings, alerts, or simply informational messages. As the system administrator, you'll customize syslog to specify where and how system messages are to be saved.
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Syslog is covered on the Part II exam.