Package: wnpp Owner: Axel Beckert <a...@deuxchevaux.org> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : busybox-syslogd Version : 0.1 Author : Axel Beckert <a...@deuxchevaux.org> * URL or Web page : http://noone.org/hg/busybox-syslogd/ * License : GPL-2+ Description : Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation Debian's busybox package has the syslogd and klogd functionalities already compiled in, but to use them, a little bit more than a few symbolic links is needed. This package provides the appropriate dependencies, the symbolic links for syslogd and klogd, man pages (also symlinks), and init.d scripts. Additionally it provides the logread utility (yet another symlink) which allows to read the syslog if stored in a ring buffer in memory instead of on disk. This is something AFAIK no other syslog package in Debian currently offers. So this package fills the gap of a syslogd for e.g. SSD or flash based systems which don't want or need permanent (local) storage of the system log, but needs access to the recent syslog anyway, i.e. netbooks, laptops, wireless routers, etc. Another advantage for low-resource or embedded systems is that it only needs very few disk space to install. Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - a...@deuxchevaux.org - http://abe.home.pages.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
