lfs-book/appendixa/sysklogd-desc.xml

<sect2><title>Contents of Sysklogd</title>

<para>Last checked against version &sysklogd-contversion;.</para>

<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>klogd and syslogd</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>

<sect4><title>klogd</title>
<para>klogd is a system daemon which intercepts and logs Linux kernel 
messages.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>syslogd</title>
<para>syslogd provides the 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.</para></sect4>

</sect3>

</sect2>