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how to disable syslogd and klogd?
Posted: Sat 07 Oct 2006, 17:43
by puppy_ok
how to disable forever syslogd and klogd daemon?
at boot is automatic enabled.
please help me
Posted: Sat 07 Oct 2006, 18:02
by GuestToo
put in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
killall klogd syslogd
Posted: Sat 07 Oct 2006, 23:00
by BarryK
They are started in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, so you can just comment-out the lines.
I was wondering about these recently also. Do we really need them?
Do they slow things down much? Any disadvantages to having them running?
Posted: Sun 08 Oct 2006, 03:28
by GuestToo
i guess the error messages are useful for diagnostic purposes
i think "puppy_ok" wanted them stopped because they kept accessing the hard drive and causing it to keep spinning
if you let them run while Puppy is booting, then kill them in rc.local or somewhere, you get the error messages while Puppy is booting, and they are shut down later when they may not be needed
a lot of programs (for example, iptables) use syslogd for logging messages
syslogd -m 0 hogs cpu
Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2012, 18:02
by azstew
At boot it starts, and uses 60-70% of cpu and I have to kill it.
Problem just started today. Puppy 5.2.5, 2 GB RAM, frugal install on SDHC, 1.6 Atom processor.
Here are the files I believe control syslogd and klogd
etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
line 28 #100126 move syslogd, klogd to /etc/init.d/00sys_logger
line 307 #100126 moved to /etc/init.d/00sys_logger...
line 308 #syslogd -m 0
line 309 #klogd
/etc/init.d/00sys_logger (contents of file)
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
start)
syslogd -m 0
klogd
;;
stop)
killall klogd
killall syslogd
;;
esac
How can I keep them from starting/are they needed?
Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2012, 20:30
by Karl Godt
The files in /etc/init.d/* are started by /etc/rc.d/rc.services . That script should check if a file is executable in /etc/init.d/* and if not executable like README files , should skip them .