lfs-book-zh_CN/chapter06/sysklogd.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-sysklogd" xreflabel="Sysklogd">
<title>Sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd"><primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary></indexterm>

<para>The Sysklogd package contains programs for logging system messages, such
as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
&diskspace; 0.5 MB</screen>

<para>Sysklogd installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make.</para>



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<title>Installation of Sysklogd</title>

<para>Compile Sysklogd:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>Now install it:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

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<sect2 id="conf-sysklogd"><title>Configuring Sysklogd</title>
<indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
<primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary>
<secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>

<indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd"><primary sortas="e-/etc/syslog.conf">/etc/syslog.conf</primary></indexterm>

<para>Create a new <filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename> file by running the
following:</para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/syslog.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
# Begin /etc/syslog.conf

auth,authpriv.* -/var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/sys.log
daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
user.* -/var/log/user.log
*.emerg *

# End /etc/syslog.conf
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>

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<sect2 id="contents-sysklogd"><title>Contents of Sysklogd</title>

<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: klogd and syslogd</para>

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<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd klogd"><primary sortas="b-klogd">klogd</primary></indexterm>
<para id="klogd"><command>klogd</command> is a system daemon for intercepting and
logging kernel messages.</para>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd syslogd"><primary sortas="b-syslogd">syslogd</primary></indexterm>
<para id="syslogd"><command>syslogd</command> 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.</para>

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