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<sect1 id="ch-system-sysklogd" role="wrap">
<?dbhtml filename="sysklogd.html"?>
<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>0.1 SBU</seg>
<seg>704 KB</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Patch</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Sysklogd</title>
<para>The following patch fixes various issues, including a problem building
Sysklogd with Linux 2.6 series kernels</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&sysklogd-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
<para>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.</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&sysklogd-8bit-patch;</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make 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 > /etc/syslog.conf << "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>
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