what is equivalent to syslog.conf for ubuntu

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 01:14 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> I am searching for syslog.conf equivalent for Ubuntu what file is that?
> Basically I am trying to create a gtalk like application which can
> alert a user as
> an SSH connection is established to his server with the machine using
> xmphp library.

Ubuntu uses rsyslogd.  See the man page.  Configuration is
in /etc/rsylog.conf and /etc/rsylog.d.  Configuration is very similar to
syslog with a bit more flexibility.
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