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r677@server (orig r675): manuel | 2005-11-10 03:13:57 -0800
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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//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-sysklogd" xreflabel="Sysklogd" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="sysklogd.html"?>
10
11  <title>Sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd">
14    <primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Sysklogd package contains programs for logging system messages,
21    such as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen.</para>
22
23    <segmentedlist>
24      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26      <seglistitem>
27        <seg>Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make</seg>
28      </seglistitem>
29    </segmentedlist>
30
31  </sect2>
32
33  <sect2 role="installation">
34    <title>Installation of Sysklogd</title>
35
36    <para os="a">The following patch fixes various issues, including a
37    problem building Sysklogd with Linux 2.6 series kernels</para>
38
39<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&sysklogd-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
40
41    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
42
43<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
44
45    <para os="d">Install the package:</para>
46
47<screen os="e"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
48
49  </sect2>
50
51  <sect2 id="conf-sysklogd" role="configuration">
52    <title>Configuring Sysklogd</title>
53
54    <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
55      <primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary>
56    <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
57
58    <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
59      <primary sortas="e-/etc/syslog.conf">/etc/syslog.conf</primary>
60    </indexterm>
61
62    <para>Create a new <filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename> file by running
63    the following:</para>
64
65<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/syslog.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
66<literal># Begin /etc/syslog.conf
67
68auth,authpriv.* -/var/log/auth.log
69*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/sys.log
70daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
71kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
72mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
73user.* -/var/log/user.log
74*.emerg *
75
76# log the bootscript output:
77local2.* -/var/log/boot.log
78
79# End /etc/syslog.conf</literal>
80EOF</userinput></screen>
81
82  </sect2>
83
84  <sect2 id="contents-sysklogd" role="content">
85    <title>Contents of Sysklogd</title>
86
87    <segmentedlist>
88      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
89
90      <seglistitem>
91        <seg>klogd and syslogd</seg>
92      </seglistitem>
93    </segmentedlist>
94
95    <variablelist>
96      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
97      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
98      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
99
100      <varlistentry id="klogd">
101        <term><command>klogd</command></term>
102        <listitem>
103          <para>A system daemon for intercepting and logging kernel
104          messages</para>
105          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd klogd">
106            <primary sortas="b-klogd">klogd</primary>
107          </indexterm>
108        </listitem>
109      </varlistentry>
110
111      <varlistentry id="syslogd">
112        <term><command>syslogd</command></term>
113        <listitem>
114          <para>Logs the messages that system programs offer for logging.
115          Every logged message contains at least a date stamp and a hostname,
116          and normally the program's name too, but that depends on how
117          trusting the logging daemon is told to be</para>
118          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd syslogd">
119            <primary sortas="b-syslogd">syslogd</primary>
120          </indexterm>
121        </listitem>
122      </varlistentry>
123
124    </variablelist>
125
126  </sect2>
127
128</sect1>
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