6.49. Installing Sysklogd-1.4.1

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6.49.1. Installation of Sysklogd

Install Sysklogd by running the following commands:

make &&
make install

6.49.2. Contents

The Sysklogd package contains the klogd and syslogd programs.

6.49.3. Description

6.49.3.1. klogd

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

6.49.3.2. 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.

6.49.4. Dependencies

Sysklogd-1.4.1 needs the following to be installed:


as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package
strip from the binutils package

install from the fileutils package

gcc rom the gcc package

make from the make package