From: smallm@panix.com   
      
   Hi,   
      
   I was curious about the history of syslogd in Slackware and the   
   motivations for using the logging project that it does. I'm reading the   
   book How Linux Works by Brian Ward, which lists the common logging   
   possibilities under Linux as involving journald, rsyslog, and/or   
   syslog-ng.   
      
   Slackware instead uses sysklog, a port from the original BSD code that   
   goes all the way back to Eric Allman and Sendmail, to 1980. 15.0 has a   
   refreshed version of that by Joachim Wiberg with code from NetBSD and   
   FreeBSD that implements newer RFCs. Among the few LinuxQuestions threads   
   I could find on sysklog -- mostly of the "could you patch this bug"   
   variety --the two sysklogd versions are referred to as the troglobit   
   version (Wiberg's updates, 2.X) and the infodrom version (Dr. Wettstein,   
   Martin Schulze, et al; 1.5.1). Wikipedia seems to lack any mention of   
   sysklog, but /usr/doc has some decent info.   
      
   Do you remember any discussions describing this preference vs. other   
   distros' for rsyslog or syslog-ng? Or do you have your own opinions?   
      
   Regards,   
   Mike Sm.   
      
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