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title: "Manual pages"
url: "https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/"
description: "Command-line reference for syslog-ng, syslog-ng-ctl, syslog-ng.conf, loggen, pdbtool, dqtool, persist-tool, and the secure logging tools."
last_modified: "2026-09-23T14:21:26+02:00"
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> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/llms.txt).

# Manual pages

Command-line reference for syslog-ng, syslog-ng-ctl, syslog-ng.conf, loggen, pdbtool, dqtool, persist-tool, and the secure logging tools.

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[The syslog-ng manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/syslog-ng.8/index.md)

[The syslog-ng.conf manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.5/index.md)

[The syslog-ng-ctl manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ctl.1/index.md)

Manual page of syslog-ng-ctl, which displays message statistics, reloads the configuration, and turns on debug and trace messages.

[The dqtool tool manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/dqtool.1/index.md)

[The loggen manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/loggen.1/index.md)

[The pdbtool manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/pdbtool.1/index.md)

[The persist-tool manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/persist-tool.1/index.md)

[The secure-logging manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/secure-logging.7/index.md)

[The slogencrypt manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/slogencrypt.1/index.md)

[The slogkey manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/slogkey.1/index.md)

[The slogverify manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/slogverify.1/index.md)

[The syslog-debun manual page](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/app-man-syslog-ng/syslog-ng-debun.1/index.md)

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