source: clfs-sysroot/BOOK/final-system/common/sysklogd.xml @ 3349a3a

Last change on this file since 3349a3a was 3349a3a, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3669@server (orig r1667): jciccone | 2006-05-27 18:13:38 -0700
Various text and command fixes

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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  </sect2>
24
25  <sect2 role="installation">
26    <title>Installation of Sysklogd</title>
27
28    <para os="a">The following patch fixes various issues, including a
29    problem building Sysklogd with Linux 2.6 series kernels</para>
30
31<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&sysklogd-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
32
33    <para os="s1">The following sed prevents chaning the owner of the installed man files and prevents install from trying to strip the installed binaries.</para>
34
35<screen os="s2"><userinput>cp Makefile{,.orig}
36sed -e 's/-o ${MAN_USER} -g ${MAN_GROUP}//' \
37    -e 's/500 -s/500/' Makefile.orig &gt; Makefile</userinput></screen>
38
39    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
40
41<screen os="d"><userinput>make CC="${CC}"</userinput></screen>
42
43    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
44
45<screen os="g"><userinput>make prefix=${LFS} install</userinput></screen>
46
47  </sect2>
48
49  <sect2 id="conf-sysklogd" role="configuration">
50    <title>Configuring Sysklogd</title>
51
52    <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
53      <primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary>
54    <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
55
56    <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
57      <primary sortas="e-/etc/syslog.conf">/etc/syslog.conf</primary>
58    </indexterm>
59
60    <para>Create a new <filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename> file by running
61    the following:</para>
62
63<screen><userinput>cat &gt; ${LFS}/etc/syslog.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
64<literal># Begin /etc/syslog.conf
65
66auth,authpriv.* -/var/log/auth.log
67*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/sys.log
68daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
69kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
70mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
71user.* -/var/log/user.log
72*.emerg *
73
74# log the bootscript output:
75local2.* -/var/log/boot.log
76
77# End /etc/syslog.conf</literal>
78EOF</userinput></screen>
79
80  </sect2>
81
82  <sect2 id="contents-sysklogd" role="content">
83    <title>Contents of Sysklogd</title>
84
85    <segmentedlist>
86      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
87
88      <seglistitem>
89        <seg>klogd and syslogd</seg>
90      </seglistitem>
91    </segmentedlist>
92
93    <variablelist>
94      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
95      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
96      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
97
98      <varlistentry id="klogd">
99        <term><command>klogd</command></term>
100        <listitem>
101          <para>A system daemon for intercepting and logging kernel
102          messages</para>
103          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd klogd">
104            <primary sortas="b-klogd">klogd</primary>
105          </indexterm>
106        </listitem>
107      </varlistentry>
108
109      <varlistentry id="syslogd">
110        <term><command>syslogd</command></term>
111        <listitem>
112          <para>Logs the messages that system programs offer for logging.
113          Every logged message contains at least a date stamp and a hostname,
114          and normally the program's name too, but that depends on how
115          trusting the logging daemon is told to be.</para>
116          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd syslogd">
117            <primary sortas="b-syslogd">syslogd</primary>
118          </indexterm>
119        </listitem>
120      </varlistentry>
121
122    </variablelist>
123
124  </sect2>
125
126</sect1>
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