Sysklogd - Revision history

Jciccone at 22:03, 19 March 2009

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			[[Category:General Utilities]]

Jim at 17:59, 31 January 2009

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	== Multilib ==		== Multilib ==


	'''''This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is required.'''''		'''''This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is required.'''''
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	make install		make install


	== Configuring Sysklogd ==		== Configuring Sysklogd ==
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	EOF		EOF

	=== BootScript ===		== BootScript ==

	Install the init script included in the [[bootscripts]] package.		Install the init script included in the [[bootscripts]] package.

Jim at 17:58, 31 January 2009

2009-01-31T17:58:07Z

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	# End /etc/syslog.conf		# End /etc/syslog.conf
	EOF		EOF

			=== BootScript ===

			Install the init script included in the [[bootscripts]] package.

			make install-sysklogd

	== Contents ==		== Contents ==

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{{Package-Introduction|The Sysklogd package contains programs for logging system messages, such as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen|http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd}}

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== Non-Multilib ==

Compile the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

== Multilib ==

'''''This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is required.'''''

make CC="gcc ${BUILD64}"

Install the package:

make install

== Configuring Sysklogd ==
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;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none -/var/log/messages
*.emerg *

# log the bootscript output:
local2.* -/var/log/boot.log

# End /etc/syslog.conf
EOF

== Contents ==

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
!Installed Directories:
|/usr/sbin
|-valign="top"
!Installed Programs:
|klogd and syslogd
|-valign="top"
!Installed Libraries:
|none
|}

=== Short Descriptions ===

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
!klogd
| A system daemon for intercepting and logging kernel messages
|-valign="top"
!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.
|}