Installing Sysklogd

Installing Sysklogd

Edit the Makefile file and find this line: CFLAGS= $(RPM_OPT_FLAGS) -O3 -DSYSV -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -fno-strength-reduce. Add the proper -mcpu= and -march= option to this variable and save the file.

Install Sysklogd by running the following commands:



root:sysklogd-1.3-31# make
root:sysklogd-1.3-31# make install

Contents

The Sysklogd package contains the klogd and syslogd programs.

Description

klogd

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

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.