syslogd command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

syslogd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: syslogd: command not found

Solutions to syslogd: command not found

How To Fix syslogd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu syslogd is provided by inetutils-syslogd package.

inetutils-syslogd is:

The syslog daemon is responsible for providing logging of messages received from programs and facilities on the local host as well as from remote hosts.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install inetutils-syslogd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install inetutils-syslogd.

sudo apt -y install inetutils-syslogd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install inetutils-syslogd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix syslogd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.