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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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| 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-sysklogd" xreflabel="Sysklogd">
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| 7 | <title>Sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="sysklogd.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd"><primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary></indexterm>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <para>The Sysklogd package contains programs for logging system messages, such
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| 13 | as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen.</para>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
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| 16 | &diskspace; 0.5 MB</screen>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <para>Sysklogd installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make.</para>
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| 19 |
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <sect2>
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| 22 | <title>Installation of Sysklogd</title>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <para>Sysklogd has issues with the Linux 2.6 kernel series - fix these isues
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| 25 | by applying the following patch:</para>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;-kernel-headers-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para>Compile Sysklogd:</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>Now install it:</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | </sect2>
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| 38 |
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <sect2 id="conf-sysklogd"><title>Configuring Sysklogd</title>
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| 41 | <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd">
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| 42 | <primary sortas="a-Sysklogd">Sysklogd</primary>
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| 43 | <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <indexterm zone="conf-sysklogd"><primary sortas="e-/etc/syslog.conf">/etc/syslog.conf</primary></indexterm>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <para>Create a new <filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename> file by running the
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| 48 | following:</para>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <screen><userinput>cat > /etc/syslog.conf << "EOF"</userinput>
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| 51 | # Begin /etc/syslog.conf
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| 52 |
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| 53 | auth,authpriv.* -/var/log/auth.log
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| 54 | *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/sys.log
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| 55 | daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
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| 56 | kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
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| 57 | mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
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| 58 | user.* -/var/log/user.log
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| 59 | *.emerg *
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| 60 |
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| 61 | # End /etc/syslog.conf
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| 62 | <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | </sect2>
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| 65 |
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <sect2 id="contents-sysklogd"><title>Contents of Sysklogd</title>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: klogd and syslogd</para>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | </sect2>
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| 72 |
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd klogd"><primary sortas="b-klogd">klogd</primary></indexterm>
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| 77 | <para id="klogd"><command>klogd</command> is a system daemon for intercepting and
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| 78 | logging kernel messages.</para>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysklogd syslogd"><primary sortas="b-syslogd">syslogd</primary></indexterm>
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| 81 | <para id="syslogd"><command>syslogd</command> logs the messages that system programs
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| 82 | offer for logging. Every logged message contains at least a date stamp and a
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| 83 | hostname, and normally the program's name too, but that depends on how
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| 84 | trusting the logging daemon is told to be.</para>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | </sect2>
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| 87 |
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| 88 |
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| 89 |
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| 90 | </sect1>
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