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.
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