Applications that need to log messages during their execution may use the syslog API. There is more than one way to use this interface, of which only one will be presented here. I urge you to consult ...

The idea is simple: suppose you specify a bogus IP address in a syslog.conf action, i.e., an IP address legitimate for your host's LAN but that isn't actually used by any host running syslogd. Since ...