%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 sed prevents chaning the owner of the installed man files and prevents install from trying to strip the installed binaries. cp Makefile{,.orig} sed -e 's/-o ${MAN_USER} -g ${MAN_GROUP}//' \ -e 's/500 -s/500/' Makefile.orig > Makefile Compile the package: make CC="${CC}" Install the package: make prefix=${CLFS} install Sysklogd configuring /etc/syslog.conf Create a new /etc/syslog.conf file by running the following: cat > ${CLFS}/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 * # log the bootscript output: local2.* -/var/log/boot.log # 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