svcadm disable system-log
 

I have to disable system-log in linux . in solaris I am doing this by svcadm disable system-log . is there any command in Linux through which I can acheive this functionality. whether chkconfig or service sommand will do this ? if so what is the syntax ?

I guess svcadm disable system-log will stop syslogd daemon . so is there any command in linux which stops the syslogd daemon ?

Which distro??

Usually your init scripts for services are in
/etc/init.d

so
/etc/init.d/syslog stop
or
/etc/init.d/syslogd stop
or
/etc/init.d/rsyslog stop

will do the job.

See also the "chkconfig" tool I mentioned in your question about "services".