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+<sect2>
+<title>Contents</title>
+
+<para>
+The Sysklogd package contains the klogd and syslogd programs.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Description</title>
+
+<sect3><title>klogd</title>
+
+<para>
+klogd is a system daemon which intercepts and logs Linux kernel messages.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>syslogd</title>
+
+<para>
+Syslogd provides a kind of logging that many modern programs use. Every
+logged message contains at least a time and a hostname field, normally a
+program name field, too, but that depends on how trusty the logging
+program is.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+