Hi,
Syslog comes with linux by default, it's up and running when you first
start your system.
> What is the method to viewing logs on Linux?
you have a bunch of log files in /var/log... your syslog file is
/var/log/syslog (in SuSE is /var/log/messages)...
To view it on your console try to tail it:
tail -f /var/log/messages
(do a man tail to learn all options of the tail command).
> My first project is to set it up as a syslog security server.
I suppose you want a remote syslog server...
Mmmm... this one is a cool article on how to setup a remote log server:
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/remote_logserver-1.html
Hope this help
and also
For a cost effective way to generate a web-based output of your syslogs use fwlogwatch. Syslog to a linux server and use fwlogwatch to generate nice HTML based reports. It does the usual linux ipchains, iptables, and Cisco IOS and PIX logs.
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/fwlogwatch/
