A.47. Sysklogd

For installation instructions see Section 6.55.

A.47.1. Official Download Location

Sysklogd (1.4.1):
http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/

A.47.2. Contents of Sysklogd

The Sysklogd package contains programs for recording system log messages, such as those reported by the kernel.

Installed programs: klogd and syslogd

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A.47.4. Short descriptions

klogd is a system daemon for intercepting and logging kernel messages.

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.

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A.47.6. Sysklogd Installation Dependencies

Sysklogd depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make.