The following three options allow to configure yum syslog behavior.
- syslog_ident
Sets the id, program name to be use for syslog messages.
- syslog_facility
Sets the "facility" name for syslog messages generated by yum, see man syslog(3). It defaults to ‘LOG_USER’.
- syslog_device
Tells yum where to send syslog messages. It may be a local device (path) or a string of the form computer:port to use a remote syslog system. If it is not defined, or if it points to a nonexistent device, then syslog is disabled. By default, it is /dev/log.
Displays YUM syslog messages in Fedora.
# grep yum /var/log/messages | tail
Oct 1 16:20:33 movix yum[10917]: Installed: ruby-dbus-0.3.0-1.fc13.noarch
Oct 1 17:40:45 movix yum[12154]: Installed: ruby-cairo-1.8.5-1.fc13.x86_64
Oct 1 17:40:47 movix yum[12154]: Installed: ruby-pango-0.19.4-2.fc13.x86_64
Oct 1 17:40:49 movix yum[12154]: Installed: ruby-gdkpixbuf2-0.19.4-2.fc13.x86_64
Oct 1 17:40:51 movix yum[12154]: Installed: ruby-libart2-0.19.4-2.fc13.x86_64
Oct 1 17:40:53 movix yum[12154]: Installed: ruby-atk-0.19.4-2.fc13.x86_64
Oct 1 17:40:58 movix yum[12154]: Installed: ruby-gtk2-0.19.4-2.fc13.x86_64
Oct 1 17:41:00 movix yum[12154]: Installed: ruby-gnomecanvas2-0.19.4-2.fc13.x86_64
Oct 1 17:41:02 movix yum[12154]: Installed: ruby-gnome2-0.19.4-2.fc13.x86_64
Oct 2 07:27:22 movix yum[16700]: Installed: fwsnort-1.0.6-7.fc13.noarch
