The Sysklogd package contains programs for logging system messages, such as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen.
Approximate build time: 0.1 SBU Required disk space: 0.5 MB |
Official download location for Sysklogd (1.4.1):
http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/download/
For its installation Sysklogd depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make.
Create a new file /etc/syslog.conf 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 *.emerg * # End /etc/syslog.conf EOF |
Installed programs: klogd and syslogd
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.