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4. Packages

Besides the BASE installation there are also packages. Each package contains one or more

“OPTs”

which can be installed in addition to the base installation. Some of the OPTs are part

of the BASE package, other have to be downloaded separately. The download site (http://

www.fli4l.de/en/download/stable-version/) gives an overview over the packages provided by

the ﬂi4l team, the OPT database (http://extern.fli4l.de/fli4l_opt-db3/) contains packages

oﬀered by other authors. In the following, we describe the packages supplied by the ﬂi4l team.

4.1. Tools In The Package ’Base’

The following OPTs are contained in the BASE package:

Name Description

OPT_SYSLOGD Tool for logging system messages (Page 73)

OPT_KLOGD Tool for logging kernel messages (Page 75)

OPT_LOGIP Tool for logging WAN IP addresses (Page 75)

OPT_Y2K Date correction utility for systems that are not Y2K-safe (Page 75)

OPT_PNP Installation of ISAPnP tools (Page 76)

4.1.1. OPT_SYSLOGD – Logging system messages

Many programs use the Syslog interface to log messages. If you want to see these messages on

your ﬂi4l console you have to start the syslogd daemon.

Setting OPT_SYSLOGD to ‘yes’ enables debugging messages, ‘no’ disables them.

See also ISDN_CIRC_x_DEBUG (Page 156) and PPPOE_DEBUG (Page 105).

Default Setting: OPT_SYSLOGD=’no’

SYSLOGD_RECEIVER SYSLOGD_RECEIVER controls whether ﬂi4l can receive Syslog messages

from other hosts in the network.

SYSLOGD_DEST_N SYSLOGD_DEST_x SYSLOGD_DEST_x describes where the system mes-

sages being received by syslogd should be displayed. Normally, this is ﬂi4l’s console,

hence:

SYSLOGD_DEST_1='*.* /dev/console'

If you want to log the messages into a ﬁle, you can e.g. use:

SYSLOGD_DEST_1='*.* /var/log/messages'

abbreviation for “OPTional module”