6.47. Installing Sysklogd

6.47.1. Installation of Sysklogd

Install Sysklogd by running the following commands:


make &&
make install

6.47.2. Contents

The Sysklogd package contains the klogd and syslogd programs.

6.47.3. Description

6.47.3.1. klogd

klogd is a system daemon which intercepts and logs Linux kernel messages.

6.47.3.2. syslogd

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.