%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; Compile the package: make This package does not come with a test suite. Install the package: make install Sysklogd configuring /etc/syslog.conf Create a new /etc/syslog.conf file by running the following: cat > /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 *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn; auth,authpriv.none; cron,daemon.none; mail,news.none -/var/log/messages.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