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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-sysklogd" role="wrap" revision="sysv">
+ <?dbhtml filename="sysklogd.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>sysklogd</productname>
+ <productnumber>&sysklogd-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&sysklogd-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd">
+ <primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The Sysklogd package contains programs for logging system messages,
+ such as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&sysklogd-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&sysklogd-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Sysklogd</title>
+
+ <para>First, fix problems that causes a segmentation fault under
+ some conditions in klogd and fix an obsolete program construct:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/Error loading kernel symbols/{n;n;d}' ksym_mod.c
+sed -i 's/union wait/int/' syslogd.c</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make BINDIR=/sbin install</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="conf-sysklogd" role="configuration">
+ <title>Configuring Sysklogd</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
+ <primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary>
+ <secondary>configuring</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
+ <primary sortas="e-/etc/syslog.conf">/etc/syslog.conf</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <para>Create a new <filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename> file by running the
+ following:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/syslog.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Begin /etc/syslog.conf
+
+auth,authpriv.* -/var/log/auth.log
+*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/sys.log
+daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
+kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
+mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
+user.* -/var/log/user.log
+*.emerg *
+
+# End /etc/syslog.conf</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-sysklogd" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Sysklogd</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>klogd and syslogd</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="klogd">
+ <term><command>klogd</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A system daemon for intercepting and logging kernel messages</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd klogd">
+ <primary sortas="b-klogd">klogd</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="syslogd">
+ <term><command>syslogd</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Logs the messages that system programs offer for logging [Every
+ logged message contains at least a date stamp and a hostname, and
+ normally the program's name too, but that depends on how trusting the
+ logging daemon is told to be.]</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd syslogd">
+ <primary sortas="b-syslogd">syslogd</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>