Sysklogd

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Sysklogd-1.4.1 in Chapter 6.

Official Download Location

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

Contents of Sysklogd

(Last checked against version 1.4.1.)

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

Sysklogd installs the following:

Program Files

klogd and syslogd

Descriptions

(Last checked against version 1.4.1.)

Program file descriptions

klogd

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

syslogd

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

Sysklogd Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.4.1.)

Binutils: as, ld, strip
Coreutils: install
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Make: make