%general-entities; ]> Sysklogd The Sysklogd package contains programs for logging system messages, such as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen. &buildtime; 0.1 SBU &diskspace; 0.5 MB Sysklogd installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make. Compile Sysklogd: make Now install it: make install Sysklogd configuring /etc/syslog.conf Create a new /etc/syslog.conf file by running the following: cat > /etc/syslog.conf << "EOF" # 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 EOF Installed programs: klogd and syslogd klogd klogd is a system daemon for intercepting and logging kernel messages. syslogd 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.