This software is compiled for use with glibc-2.0.5 You have first to install the library package! Installation hints: RTFM! especialy if you are using version-1.2 (syslogd -v shows version Number) Save your old daemons before extracting usr/sbin kill the old ones and start the new ones. This isn't a official release. It is 1.3.pl3 + changes made by debian... Contents of the sysklogd-1.3-17.tar TAR-Archive: -rw-r--r-- root/root 17632 1997-11-25 23:58 usr/man/man8/sysklogd.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 20 1997-11-25 23:58 usr/man/man8/syslogd.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 15290 1997-11-25 23:58 usr/man/man8/klogd.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 11812 1997-11-25 23:58 usr/man/man5/syslog.conf.5 -r-x------ root/root 23484 1997-11-25 23:59 usr/sbin/syslogd -r-x------ root/root 17944 1997-11-25 23:59 usr/sbin/klogd