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title = "[cfengine] log to syslog"
date = "2014-02-24T21:51:39+00:00"
author = "Gibheer"
draft = false
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When you want to start with cfengine, it is not exactly obvious how some stuff works. To make
it easier for others, I will write about some stuff I find out in the process.

For the start, here is the first thing I found out. By default cfengine logs to files
in the work directory. This can get a bit ugly, when the agent is running every 5min.
  As I use cf-execd, I added the option
[executorfacility](https://cfengine.com/docs/3.5/reference-components-cfexecd.html#executorfacility)
to the exed section.

    body executor control {
      executorfacility => "LOG_LOCAL7";
    }

After that a restart of execd will result in logs appearing through syslog.