6.48. Installing Sysklogd

6.48.1. Installation of Sysklogd

Install Sysklogd by running the following commands:


patch -Np1 -i ../sysklogd-1.4.patch &&
make &&
make install

6.48.2. Contents

The Sysklogd package contains the klogd and syslogd programs.

6.48.3. Description

6.48.3.1. klogd

klogd is a system daemon which intercepts and logs Linux kernel messages.

6.48.3.2. syslogd

Syslogd provides a kind of logging that many modern programs use. Every logged message contains at least a time and a hostname field, normally a program name field, too, but that depends on how trusty the logging program is.