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### Appendix D. Boot and sysconfig scripts version-20250827

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# D.15. /etc/rc.d/init.d/sysklogd

    #!/bin/sh
    ########################################################################
    # Begin sysklogd
    #
    # Description : Sysklogd loader
    #
    # Authors     : Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
    #               DJ Lucas - dj@linuxfromscratch.org
    # Update      : Bruce Dubbs - bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org
    # Update      : Bruce Dubbs - bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org LFS12.1
    #               Remove kernel log daemon.  The functionality has been
    #               merged with syslogd.
    #
    # Version     : LFS 7.0
    #
    ########################################################################

    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides:            $syslog
    # Required-Start:      $first localnet
    # Should-Start:
    # Required-Stop:       $local_fs
    # Should-Stop:         sendsignals
    # Default-Start:       2 3 4 5
    # Default-Stop:        0 1 6
    # Short-Description:   Starts system log daemon.
    # Description:         Starts system log daemon.
    #                      /etc/fstab.
    # X-LFS-Provided-By:   LFS
    ### END INIT INFO

    . /lib/lsb/init-functions

    case "${1}" in
       start)
          log_info_msg "Starting system log daemon..."
          parms=${SYSKLOGD_PARMS-'-m 0'}
          start_daemon /sbin/syslogd $parms
          evaluate_retval
          ;;

       stop)
          log_info_msg "Stopping system log daemon..."
          killproc /sbin/syslogd
          evaluate_retval
          ;;

       reload)
          log_info_msg "Reloading system log daemon config file..."
          pid=`pidofproc syslogd`
          kill -HUP "${pid}"
          evaluate_retval
          ;;

       restart)
          ${0} stop
          sleep 1
          ${0} start
          ;;

       status)
          statusproc /sbin/syslogd
          ;;

       *)
          echo "Usage: ${0} {start|stop|reload|restart|status}"
          exit 1
          ;;
    esac

    exit 0

    # End sysklogd

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