From 7f4dcff60d988074692063211b7e4724d57240fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joachim Wiberg Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:48:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Updates on project origin and naming Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg --- README.md | 19 +++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0028777..7a5a6b7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -19,9 +19,8 @@ Table of Contents * [Building from GIT](#building-from-git) * [Origin & References](#origin--references) -> **Tip:** the Gentoo project has a very nice article on their wiki -> detailing how to use and set up sysklogd ➤ -> +> **Tip:** the Gentoo project has a very nice article detailing how to +> use and set up sysklogd ➤ Introduction @@ -78,6 +77,9 @@ Main differences from the original sysklogd package are: - GNU configure & build system to ease porting/cross-compiling - Support for configuring remote syslog timeout +Please file bug reports, or send pull requests for bug fixes and/or +proposed extensions at [GitHub][Home]. + Using -lsyslog -------------- @@ -179,9 +181,14 @@ Origin & References This is the continuation of the original sysklogd by Dr. G.W. Wettstein and [Martin Schulze][]. Currently maintained, and almost completely -rewritten with the latest DNA strands from NetBSD and FreeBSD, by -[Joachim Wiberg][]. Please file bug reports, or send pull requests for -bug fixes and proposed extensions at [GitHub][Home]. +rewritten by [Joachim Wiberg][], who spliced in fresh DNA strands from +the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects. Much of the code base is NetBSD, but +the command line interface is FreeBSD. + +> **Note:** the project name remains `sysklogd`, which was a combination +> of the names of the two main daemons, `syslogd` and `klogd`. However, +> since v2.0 `klogd` no longer exists, kernel logging is now native to +> `syslogd`. The project was previously licensed under the GNU GPL, but since the removal of `klogd`, man pages, and resync with the BSDs the project is