source: final-system/common/sysklogd.xml@ ee3f926

Last change on this file since ee3f926 was 3014722, checked in by Chris Staub <chris@…>, 18 years ago

Correct syntax error in syslog.conf

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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="c">Compile the package:</para>
34
35<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
36
37 <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
38
39 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
40
41<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
42
43 </sect2>
44
45 <sect2 id="conf-sysklogd" role="configuration">
46 <title>Configuring Sysklogd</title>
47
48 <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
49 <primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary>
50 <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
51
52 <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
53 <primary sortas="e-/etc/syslog.conf">/etc/syslog.conf</primary>
54 </indexterm>
55
56 <para>Create a new <filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename> file by running
57 the following:</para>
58
59<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/syslog.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
60<literal># Begin /etc/syslog.conf
61
62auth,authpriv.* -/var/log/auth.log
63*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/sys.log
64daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
65kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
66mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
67user.* -/var/log/user.log
68*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
69auth,authpriv.none;\
70cron,daemon.none;\
71mail,news.none -/var/log/messages.log
72
73*.emerg *
74
75# log the bootscript output:
76local2.* -/var/log/boot.log
77
78# End /etc/syslog.conf</literal>
79EOF</userinput></screen>
80
81 </sect2>
82
83 <sect2 id="contents-sysklogd" role="content">
84 <title>Contents of Sysklogd</title>
85
86 <segmentedlist>
87 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
88
89 <seglistitem>
90 <seg>klogd and syslogd</seg>
91 </seglistitem>
92 </segmentedlist>
93
94 <variablelist>
95 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
96 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
97 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
98
99 <varlistentry id="klogd">
100 <term><command>klogd</command></term>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>A system daemon for intercepting and logging kernel
103 messages</para>
104 <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd klogd">
105 <primary sortas="b-klogd">klogd</primary>
106 </indexterm>
107 </listitem>
108 </varlistentry>
109
110 <varlistentry id="syslogd">
111 <term><command>syslogd</command></term>
112 <listitem>
113 <para>Logs the messages that system programs offer for logging.
114 Every logged message contains at least a date stamp and a hostname,
115 and normally the program's name too, but that depends on how
116 trusting the logging daemon is told to be.</para>
117 <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd syslogd">
118 <primary sortas="b-syslogd">syslogd</primary>
119 </indexterm>
120 </listitem>
121 </varlistentry>
122
123 </variablelist>
124
125 </sect2>
126
127</sect1>
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