lfs/appendixa/sysklogd-desc.xml

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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
<para>
The Sysklogd package contains the klogd and syslogd programs.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Description</title>
<sect3><title>klogd</title>
<para>
klogd is a system daemon which intercepts and logs Linux kernel messages.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>syslogd</title>
<para>
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.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>