Best practices for syslog

Very good resources, thank you very much. I'm not really a Linux guy, so the underlying interface is taking some getting used to. Any insight in to where those specific messages are being logged from, I've checked against the documentation and compared it with my own config, but I just don't know if I'm missing something. Do I need to restart the syslog function? I've not spent much time dealing with syslog(pretty obvious) so I want to get it right.