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# Installing Sysklogd

## Installation of Sysklogd

Install Sysklogd by running the following commands:

> `patch -Np1 -i ../sysklogd-1.4.patch &&`
> `make &&`
> `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.

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