%general-entities; ]> Sysklogd The following patch fixes various issues, including a problem building Sysklogd with Linux 2.6 series kernels patch -Np1 -i ../&sysklogd-fixes-patch; The following patch makes sysklogd treat bytes in the 0x80--0x9f range literally in the messages being logged, instead of replacing them with octal codes. Unpatched sysklogd would damage messages in the UTF-8 encoding. patch -Np1 -i ../&sysklogd-8bit-patch; Compile the package: make This package does not come with a test suite. Install the package: make install Sysklogd configuring /etc/syslog.conf Create a new /etc/syslog.conf file by running the following: cat > /etc/syslog.conf << "EOF" # 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 EOF Installed programs klogd and syslogd Short Descriptions klogd A system daemon for intercepting and logging kernel messages klogd syslogd 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 syslogd