Chapter 7.6 Sysklog

Notice the difference between sysklogd and syslogd !

Reading the "man syslogd". This caught my eye. "Syslogd  reacts  to  a set of signals.  You may easily send a signal to syslogd using the following:

              kill -SIGNAL `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`

My biggest problem with syslogs is that they are very difficult for me to read. Recent apps are beginning to at least provide some sort of sorting according to the day. I would like keywords like: sound or video to be available because these are errors I have had in the past.

Ah, after some searching, this command is here: /sbin/syslogd
root:/#file  /sbin/syslogd
/sbin/syslogd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped

I cannot look at it.
root:/#  ls -l /sbin/syslogd
-r-x------ 1 root root 31508 Jun 15 12:57 /sbin/syslogd



Wait, I am confused. They are talking about sysklogd, with a "k". Which is:
root:/# find / -name sysklogd
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysklogd
/sources/lfs-bootscripts-20100124/contrib/lsb-v3/init.d/sysklogd
/sources/lfs-bootscripts-20100124/lfs/init.d/sysklogd



Here's a directory listing of init.d:

root:/etc/rc.d/init.d# ls -lrt
total 100
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   982 Jun 16 11:36 udev_retry
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root  2229 Jun 16 11:36 udev
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   654 Jun 16 11:36 template
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   978 Jun 16 11:36 sysklogd
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   767 Jun 16 11:36 sysctl
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   825 Jun 16 11:36 swap
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   834 Jun 16 11:36 setclock
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   866 Jun 16 11:36 sendsignals
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   531 Jun 16 11:36 reboot
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root  2261 Jun 16 11:36 rc
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root  1356 Jun 16 11:36 network
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   841 Jun 16 11:36 mountkernfs
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root  1242 Jun 16 11:36 mountfs
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root  1637 Jun 16 11:36 modules
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   978 Jun 16 11:36 localnet
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root   483 Jun 16 11:36 halt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16747 Jun 16 11:36 functions
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root  1286 Jun 16 11:36 consolelog
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root  2531 Jun 16 11:36 console
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root  2293 Jun 16 11:36 cleanfs
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root  3758 Jun 16 11:36 checkfs

I still do not know what to do with this. Read on.