.TH IMPLOGD 8C "4 March 1983"
implogd \- IMP logger process
is program which logs messages from the IMP,
Entries in the file are variable length. Each log
entry has a fixed length header of the form:
followed, possibly, by the message received from the
IMP. Each time the logging process is started up it
places a time stamp entry in the file (a header with
The logging process will catch only those message from
the IMP which are not processed by a protocol module,
e.g. IP. This implies the log should contain only
status information such as ``IMP going down'' messages
and, perhaps, stray NCP messages.
The messages should probably be sent to the system error
logging process instead of maintaining yet another log file.