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| author | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2003-02-28 07:20:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2003-02-28 07:20:55 +0000 |
| commit | 08f4a4c50807bd51f137df84890e35af32ca864d (patch) | |
| tree | b4aa0b91301c6012a8904182db572f9b809010a1 /sysklogd | |
| parent | 5ef448285b6e5b27ca2ac83defa6c1adec13bab6 (diff) | |
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Add all the syslogd help text
Diffstat (limited to 'sysklogd')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysklogd/Config.in | 67 |
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/sysklogd/Config.in b/sysklogd/Config.in index 5bded0675..8f7fa7fd1 100644 --- a/sysklogd/Config.in +++ b/sysklogd/Config.in | |||
| @@ -5,44 +5,79 @@ | |||
| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | menu "System Logging Utilities" | 6 | menu "System Logging Utilities" |
| 7 | 7 | ||
| 8 | config CONFIG_KLOGD | ||
| 9 | bool "klogd" | ||
| 10 | default n | ||
| 11 | help | ||
| 12 | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. | ||
| 13 | |||
| 14 | config CONFIG_LOGGER | ||
| 15 | bool "logger" | ||
| 16 | default n | ||
| 17 | help | ||
| 18 | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | config CONFIG_SYSLOGD | 8 | config CONFIG_SYSLOGD |
| 21 | bool "syslogd" | 9 | bool "syslogd" |
| 22 | default n | 10 | default n |
| 23 | help | 11 | help |
| 24 | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. | 12 | The syslogd utility is used to record logs of all the |
| 13 | significant events that occur on a system. Every | ||
| 14 | message that is logged records the date and time of the | ||
| 15 | event, and will generally also record the name of the | ||
| 16 | application that generated the message. When used in | ||
| 17 | conjunction with klogd, messages from the Linux kernel | ||
| 18 | can also be recorded. This is terribly useful, | ||
| 19 | especially for finding what happened when somthing goes | ||
| 20 | wrong. And something almost always will go wrong if | ||
| 21 | you wait long enough.... | ||
| 25 | 22 | ||
| 26 | config CONFIG_FEATURE_REMOTE_LOG | 23 | config CONFIG_FEATURE_REMOTE_LOG |
| 27 | bool " Remote Log support" | 24 | bool " Remote Log support" |
| 28 | default n | 25 | default n |
| 29 | depends on CONFIG_SYSLOGD | 26 | depends on CONFIG_SYSLOGD |
| 30 | help | 27 | help |
| 31 | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. | 28 | When you enable this feature, the syslogd utility can |
| 29 | be used to send system log messages to another system | ||
| 30 | connected via a network. This allows the remote | ||
| 31 | machine to log all the system messages, which can be | ||
| 32 | terribly useful for reducing the number of serial | ||
| 33 | cables you use. It can also be a very good security | ||
| 34 | measure to prevent system logs from being tampered with | ||
| 35 | by an intruder. | ||
| 32 | 36 | ||
| 33 | config CONFIG_FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG | 37 | config CONFIG_FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG |
| 34 | bool " Circular Buffer support" | 38 | bool " Circular Buffer support" |
| 35 | default n | 39 | default n |
| 36 | depends on CONFIG_SYSLOGD | 40 | depends on CONFIG_SYSLOGD |
| 37 | help | 41 | help |
| 38 | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. | 42 | When you enable this feature, the syslogd utility will |
| 43 | use a circular buffer to record system log messages. | ||
| 44 | When the buffer is filled it will continue to overwrite | ||
| 45 | the oldest messaged. This can be very useful for | ||
| 46 | systems with little or no perminant storage, since | ||
| 47 | otherwise system logs can eventually fill up your | ||
| 48 | entire filesystem, which may cause your system to | ||
| 49 | break badly. | ||
| 39 | 50 | ||
| 40 | config CONFIG_LOGREAD | 51 | config CONFIG_LOGREAD |
| 41 | bool " logread" | 52 | bool " logread" |
| 42 | default y | 53 | default y |
| 43 | depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG | 54 | depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG |
| 44 | help | 55 | help |
| 45 | Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. | 56 | If you enabled Circular Buffer support, you almost |
| 57 | certainly want to enable this feature as well. This | ||
| 58 | utility will allow you to read the messages that are | ||
| 59 | stored in the syslogd circular buffer. | ||
| 60 | |||
| 61 | config CONFIG_KLOGD | ||
| 62 | bool "klogd" | ||
| 63 | default n | ||
| 64 | depends on CONFIG_SYSLOGD | ||
| 65 | help | ||
| 66 | klogd is a utility which which intercepts and logs all | ||
| 67 | messages from the Linux kernel and sends the messages | ||
| 68 | out to the 'syslogd' utility so they can be logged. If | ||
| 69 | you wish to record the messages produced by the kernel, | ||
| 70 | you should enable this option. | ||
| 71 | |||
| 72 | config CONFIG_LOGGER | ||
| 73 | bool "logger" | ||
| 74 | default n | ||
| 75 | depends on CONFIG_SYSLOGD | ||
| 76 | help | ||
| 77 | The logger utility allows you to send arbitrary text | ||
| 78 | messages to the 'syslogd' utility so they can be | ||
| 79 | logged. This is generally used to help locate problems | ||
| 80 | that occur within programs and scripts. | ||
| 46 | 81 | ||
| 47 | endmenu | 82 | endmenu |
| 48 | 83 | ||