newxml/chapter06/sysklogd.xml

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   6 <sect1 id="ch-system-sysklogd" xreflabel="Sysklogd">
   7 <title>Sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;</title>
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  10 <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd"><primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary></indexterm>
  11
  12 <para>The Sysklogd package contains programs for logging system messages, such
  13 as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen.</para>
  14
  15 <screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
  16 &diskspace; 0.5 MB</screen>
  17
  18 <para>Sysklogd installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make.</para>
  19
  20
  21
  22 <sect2>
  23 <title>Installation of Sysklogd</title>
  24
  25 <para>Compile Sysklogd:</para>
  26
  27 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  28
  29 <para>Now install it:</para>
  30
  31 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  32
  33 </sect2>
  34
  35
  36 <sect2 id="conf-sysklogd"><title>Configuring Sysklogd</title>
  37 <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
  38 <primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary>
  39 <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
  40
  41 <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd"><primary sortas="e-/etc/syslog.conf">/etc/syslog.conf</primary></indexterm>
  42
  43 <para>Create a new <filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename> file by running the
  44 following:</para>
  45
  46 <screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/syslog.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
  47 # Begin /etc/syslog.conf
  48
  49 auth,authpriv.* -/var/log/auth.log
  50 *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/sys.log
  51 daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
  52 kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
  53 mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
  54 user.* -/var/log/user.log
  55 *.emerg *
  56
  57 # End /etc/syslog.conf
  58 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
  59
  60 </sect2>
  61
  62
  63 <sect2 id="contents-sysklogd"><title>Contents of Sysklogd</title>
  64
  65 <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: klogd and syslogd</para>
  66
  67 </sect2>
  68
  69
  70 <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
  71
  72 <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd klogd"><primary sortas="b-klogd">klogd</primary></indexterm>
  73 <para id="klogd"><command>klogd</command> is a system daemon for intercepting and
  74 logging kernel messages.</para>
  75
  76 <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd syslogd"><primary sortas="b-syslogd">syslogd</primary></indexterm>
  77 <para id="syslogd"><command>syslogd</command> logs the messages that system programs
  78 offer for logging. Every logged message contains at least a date stamp and a
  79 hostname, and normally the program's name too, but that depends on how
  80 trusting the logging daemon is told to be.</para>
  81
  82 </sect2>
  83
  84
  85
  86 </sect1>