ulogd command not found

Introduction

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

ulogd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ulogd: command not found

Solutions to ulogd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ulogd is provided by ulogd2 package.

ulogd2 is:

ulogd is an advanced netfilter logging daemon. It can act as a replacement for syslog for logging netfilter ruleset violations (via the NFLOG or ULOG iptables targets), can gather per-connection accounting using NFCT, or gather per-rule accounting using NFACCT. Output can be sent to plain text log files, a variety of SQL database formats, XML files, pcap files, syslog, and many other formats.

Support for the DBI database abstraction layer, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite 3 databases is in separate packages called ulogd2-dbi, ulogd2-mysql, ulogd2-pgsql and ulogd2-sqlite3 respectively. Support for writing to JSON files is the ulogd2-json package. Support for writing to pcap files is in the ulogd2-pcap package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ulogd2

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

You can also use apt command to install ulogd2.

sudo apt -y install ulogd2

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

sudo aptitude install ulogd2

Summary

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