source: BOOK/final-system/common/rsyslog.xml@ 8c75f86f

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[37de9d1]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-rsyslog" xreflabel="rsyslog" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="rsyslog.html"?>
10
11 <title>Rsyslog-&rsyslog-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-rsyslog">
14 <primary sortas="a-rsyslog">rsyslog</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The rsyslog package contains programs for logging system messages,
21 such as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
[13e20ae]26 <title>Installation of Rsyslog</title>
[37de9d1]27
28 <para os="a">Prepare Rsyslog for compilation:</para>
29
30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --sbindir=/sbin</userinput></screen>
31
32 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
33
34<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
35
36 <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
37
38 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
39
40<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
41
[3a14187]42 <para os="h">Create a directory for expansion snippets:</para>
43
44<screen os="i"><userinput>install -dv /etc/rsyslog.d</userinput></screen>
45
[37de9d1]46 </sect2>
47
48 <sect2 id="conf-rsyslog" role="configuration">
49 <title>Configuring rsyslog</title>
50
51 <indexterm zone="conf-rsyslog">
52 <primary sortas="a-rsyslog">rsyslog</primary>
53 <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
54
55 <indexterm zone="conf-rsyslog">
56 <primary sortas="e-/etc/rsyslog.conf">/etc/rsyslog.conf</primary>
57 </indexterm>
58
59 <para>Create a new <filename>/etc/rsyslog.conf</filename> file by running
60 the following:</para>
61
62<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/rsyslog.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
63<literal># Begin /etc/rsyslog.conf
64
65# CLFS configuration of rsyslog. For more info use man rsyslog.conf
66
67#######################################################################
68# Rsyslog Modules
69
70# Support for Local System Logging
71$ModLoad imuxsock.so
72
73# Support for Kernel Logging
74$ModLoad imklog.so
75
76#######################################################################
77# Global Options
78
79# Use traditional timestamp format.
80$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat
81
82# Set the default permissions for all log files.
83$FileOwner root
84$FileGroup root
85$FileCreateMode 0640
86$DirCreateMode 0755
87
[b25f67d]88# Provides UDP reception
89$ModLoad imudp
90$UDPServerRun 514
91
92# Disable Repating of Entries
93$RepeatedMsgReduction on
94
[3a14187]95#######################################################################
96# Include Rsyslog Config Snippets
97
98$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
99
[37de9d1]100#######################################################################
101# Standard Log Files
102
103auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log
104*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
105daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
106kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
107lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log
108mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
109user.* -/var/log/user.log
110
111# Catch All Logs
112*.=debug;\
113 auth,authpriv.none;\
114 news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug
115*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
116 auth,authpriv.none;\
117 cron,daemon.none;\
118 mail,news.none -/var/log/messages
119
120# Emergency are shown to everyone
121*.emerg *
122
123# End /etc/rsyslog.conf</literal>
124EOF</userinput></screen>
125
126 </sect2>
127
128 <sect2 id="contents-rsyslog" role="content">
129 <title>Contents of rsyslog</title>
130
131 <segmentedlist>
132 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
133
134 <seglistitem>
135 <seg>rsyslogd</seg>
136 </seglistitem>
137 </segmentedlist>
138
139 <variablelist>
140 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
141 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
142 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
143
144 <varlistentry id="rsyslogd">
145 <term><command>rsyslogd</command></term>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>Logs the messages that system programs offer for logging.
148 Every logged message contains at least a date stamp and a hostname,
149 and normally the program's name too, but that depends on how
150 trusting the logging daemon is told to be.</para>
151 <indexterm zone="ch-system-rsyslog rsyslogd">
152 <primary sortas="b-rsyslogd">syslogd</primary>
153 </indexterm>
154 </listitem>
155 </varlistentry>
156
157 </variablelist>
158
159 </sect2>
160
161</sect1>
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