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diff --git a/source/a/sysklogd/config/syslog.conf.new b/source/a/sysklogd/config/syslog.conf.new
index 15bc5ee41..4cf787aef 100644
--- a/source/a/sysklogd/config/syslog.conf.new
+++ b/source/a/sysklogd/config/syslog.conf.new
@@ -1,26 +1,31 @@
# /etc/syslog.conf
# For info about the format of this file, see "man syslog.conf"
-# and /usr/doc/sysklogd/README.linux. Note the '-' prefixing some
-# of these entries; this omits syncing the file after every logging.
+# and /usr/doc/sysklogd/README.linux. Note the '-' prefixing some
+# of these entries; this omits syncing the file after every logging.
# In the event of a crash, some log information might be lost, so
# if this is a concern to you then you might want to remove the '-'.
-# Be advised this will cause a performation loss if you're using
+# Be advised this will cause a performance loss if you're using
# programs that do heavy logging.
-# Uncomment this to see kernel messages on the console.
-#kern.* /dev/console
+# Uncomment to see kernel messages 'err' or higher on the console.
+# Note that this is disabled by default because the kernel has defined
+# the "No irq handler for vector" message as 'emerg' (the highest, your
+# system should be considered unusable) level and will spam the console
+# during boot. But perhaps you can live with that in order to see the
+# other kernel messages...
+#kern.err /dev/console
# Log anything 'info' or higher, but lower than 'warn'.
-# Exclude authpriv, cron, mail, and news. These are logged elsewhere.
+# Exclude authpriv, cron, mail, and news. These are logged elsewhere.
*.info;*.!warn;\
authpriv.none;cron.none;mail.none;news.none -/var/log/messages
# Log anything 'warn' or higher.
-# Exclude authpriv, cron, mail, and news. These are logged elsewhere.
+# Exclude authpriv, cron, mail, and news. These are logged elsewhere.
*.warn;\
authpriv.none;cron.none;mail.none;news.none -/var/log/syslog
-# Debugging information is logged here.
+# Debugging information is logged here:
*.=debug -/var/log/debug
# Private authentication message logging:
@@ -35,12 +40,14 @@ mail.* -/var/log/maillog
# Emergency level messages go to all users:
*.emerg *
-# This log is for news and uucp errors:
-uucp,news.crit -/var/log/spooler
+# Uncomment to log news and uucp errors:
+#uucp,news.crit -/var/log/spooler
-# Uncomment these if you'd like INN to keep logs on everything.
-# You won't need this if you don't run INN (the InterNetNews daemon).
+# Uncomment these if you run a news server and would like to log related
+# messages:
#news.=crit -/var/log/news/news.crit
#news.=err -/var/log/news/news.err
#news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice
+# Include all config files in /etc/syslog.d/:
+include /etc/syslog.d/*.conf