source: clfs-sysroot/BOOK/final-system/common/sysklogd.xml@ eb170af

Last change on this file since eb170af was c560935, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 17 years ago

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