klogd
The kernel-logging daemon is a special daemon that passes messages from the kernel to the syslog daemon. The kernel daemon normally reads from /proc/kmsg to get kernel messages and passes them to syslog.
The klogd daemon under OpenLinux is run with one command-line option as entered in /etc/sysconfig/daemons/syslog. This command-line option tests for a System.map file that matches the version of the running kernel and uses that map file. Other options will not be discussed in this text because they are not of general interest.
Debian, by default, uses no options for klogd, but has an example in /etc/init.d/sysklogd of an options entry of the type used by Caldera that reads from the appropriate System.map file.
Red Hat has no convenient method ...
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