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 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.

Sysklogd Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.4.1.)

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