lfs-book/appendixa/sysklogd-desc.xml

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<title>Contents</title>

<para>
The Sysklogd package contains the klogd and syslogd programs.
</para>

</sect2>

<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>klogd</title>

<para>
klogd is a system daemon which intercepts and logs Linux kernel messages.
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</sect3>

<sect3><title>syslogd</title>

<para>
Syslogd provides a kind of logging that many modern programs use. Every 
logged message contains at least a time and a hostname field, normally a 
program name field, too, but that depends on how trusty the logging 
program is.
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</sect3>

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