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| author | Aaditya Bagga <aaditya_gnulinux@zoho.com> | 2019-09-14 11:34:35 +0700 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2019-09-14 11:34:35 +0700 |
| commit | 7f48ddbfdc26e576b7307e54d7b1841fadda1ebd (patch) | |
| tree | bc79c94d2ca21064e53b49032307b31d0c9a9f5f /system/socklog/README | |
| parent | 5875cbbae460af3e169490ccd53ac45cb9908d78 (diff) | |
system/socklog: Added (system and kernel logging services).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/socklog/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/socklog/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/system/socklog/README b/system/socklog/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..808c505ff37dc --- /dev/null +++ b/system/socklog/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +socklog, in cooperation with the runit package, is a small and secure replacement for syslogd. + +It can receive syslog messages from a unix domain socket ("/dev/log") and +write them to various files on disk depending on facility and priority. + +It can receive messages from a udp socket ("0.0.0.0:514") and write them to +disk, or forward the messages to another udp socket ("a.b.c.d:514"). + +svlogd has a built in log file rotation based on file size, +so there is no need for any cron jobs or similar to rotate the logs. + +Check README.Slackware on how to use it after installation. |