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Ubuntu 12.04 klogd 1.5-6ubuntu1 not started at boot

Asked by Ander Juaristi

My server came with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and sysklogd version 1.5-6ubuntu1 precise pre-installed. However, I noticed that while sysklogd successfully starts automatically each time the system starts, klogd does not. This causes messages generated in the kernel ring not being logged, such as those coming from iptables. If I want to log those messages, I have to manually start klogd with every system restart, with "service klogd start". In the end, I generated symlinks in the various /etc/rc* directories so I didn't have to do that every time. The symlinks generated were the same as the sysklogd symlinks, in the same runlevels, and just before the sysklogd ones:

/etc# ln -s ../init.d/klogd rc1.d/K89klogd
/etc# for RL in 2 3 4 5; do ln -s ../init.d/klogd rc$RL.d/S09klogd; done

My question is, why is sysklogd in /etc/rc* by default and klogd not?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug. If you can start klogd yourself you can add the command in /etc/rc.local above the 'exit 0' line. Be sure to add an ampersand to the command to background it and not hang the boot.

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