Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd suitable both for small systems as well as large enterprises.
This page provide a few quick pointers which hopefully make your experience with rsyslog a pleasant one. These are:
In general, rsyslog supports plain old syslog.conf format, except that the config file is now called rsyslog.conf. This should help you get started quickly.
The built-in rsyslog history page is for you if you would like to learn a little more on why there is an rsyslog at all. If you are interested why you should care about rsyslog at all, you may want to read Rainer's essay on "why the world needs another syslogd".