diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/no-strip-install.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/no-strip-install.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00fba71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/no-strip-install.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [configuration]
+
+Index: sysklogd-1.5/Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- sysklogd-1.5.orig/Makefile	2009-06-09 13:02:41.000000000 +0200
++++ sysklogd-1.5/Makefile	2009-06-09 13:03:06.000000000 +0200
+@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@
+ 	rm -f syslogd klogd ksym syslog_tst oops_test TAGS tsyslogd tklogd
+ 
+ install_exec: syslogd klogd
+-	${INSTALL} -m 500 -s syslogd ${BINDIR}/syslogd
+-	${INSTALL} -m 500 -s klogd ${BINDIR}/klogd
++	${INSTALL} -m 500 syslogd ${BINDIR}/syslogd
++	${INSTALL} -m 500 klogd ${BINDIR}/klogd
+ 
+ install_man:
+ 	${INSTALL} -m ${MAN_PERMS} sysklogd.8 ${MANDIR}/man8/sysklogd.8
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/no-vectorization.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/no-vectorization.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1cc042
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/no-vectorization.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
+
+The compiler should not be generating vectorized instructions on this target.
+This is a work around until I can determine why this is occuring on this
+particular recipe
+
+Index: sysklogd-1.5/Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- sysklogd-1.5.orig/Makefile
++++ sysklogd-1.5/Makefile
+@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
+ CC= gcc
+ #SKFLAGS= -g -DSYSV -Wall
+ #LDFLAGS= -g
+-SKFLAGS= $(RPM_OPT_FLAGS) -O3 -DSYSV -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -fno-strength-reduce
++SKFLAGS= $(RPM_OPT_FLAGS) -O3 -DSYSV -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -fno-strength-reduce \
++	-fno-tree-vectorize
+ # -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
+ # -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
+ # $(shell getconf LFS_SKFLAGS)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/sysklogd b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/sysklogd
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..258f882
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/sysklogd
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+# /etc/init.d/sysklogd: start the system log daemon.
+
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:             sysklogd
+# Required-Start:       $remote_fs $time
+# Required-Stop:        $remote_fs $time
+# Should-Start:         $network
+# Should-Stop:          $network
+# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:         0 1 6
+# Short-Description:    System logger
+### END INIT INFO
+
+# Source function library.
+. /etc/init.d/functions
+
+PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
+
+pidfile_syslogd=/var/run/syslogd.pid
+pidfile_klogd=/var/run/klogd.pid
+binpath_syslogd=/sbin/syslogd
+binpath_klogd=/sbin/klogd
+
+test -x $binpath || exit 0
+
+test ! -r /etc/default/syslogd || . /etc/default/syslogd
+
+create_xconsole()
+{
+    # Only proceed if /dev/xconsole is used at all
+    if ! grep -q '^[^#].*/dev/xconsole' /etc/syslog.conf
+    then
+	return
+    fi
+
+    if [ ! -e /dev/xconsole ]; then
+	mknod -m 640 /dev/xconsole p
+    else
+	chmod 0640 /dev/xconsole
+    fi
+    chown root:adm /dev/xconsole
+    test ! -x /sbin/restorecon || /sbin/restorecon /dev/xconsole
+}
+
+log_begin_msg () {
+    echo -n $1
+}
+
+log_end_msg () {
+    echo $1
+}
+
+log_success_msg () {
+    echo $1
+}
+
+running()
+{
+    # No pidfile, probably no daemon present
+    #
+    if [ ! -f $pidfile ]
+    then
+	return 1
+    fi
+
+    pid=`cat $pidfile_syslogd`
+
+    # No pid, probably no daemon present
+    #
+    if [ -z "$pid" ]
+    then
+	return 1
+    fi
+
+    if [ ! -d /proc/$pid ]
+    then
+	return 1
+    fi
+
+    cmd=`cat /proc/$pid/cmdline | tr "\000" "\n"|head -n 1`
+
+    # No syslogd?
+    #
+    if [ "$cmd" != "$binpath" ]
+    then
+	return 1
+    fi
+
+    return 0
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+  start)
+    log_begin_msg "Starting system log daemon..."
+    create_xconsole
+    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $pidfile_syslogd --name syslogd --startas $binpath_syslogd -- $SYSLOGD
+    log_end_msg $?
+    log_begin_msg "Starting kernel log daemon..."
+    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $pidfile_klogd --name klogd --startas $binpath_klogd -- $KLOGD
+    log_end_msg $?
+    ;;
+  stop)
+    log_begin_msg "Stopping system log daemon..."
+    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $pidfile_syslogd --name syslogd
+    log_end_msg $?
+    log_begin_msg "Stopping kernel log daemon..."
+    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry 3 --exec $binpath_klogd --pidfile $pidfile_klogd
+    log_end_msg $?
+    ;;
+  reload|force-reload)
+    log_begin_msg "Reloading system log daemon..."
+    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --signal 1 --pidfile $pidfile_syslogd --name syslogd
+    log_end_msg $?
+    log_begin_msg "Reloading kernel log daemon..."
+    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry 3 --exec $binpath_klogd --pidfile $pidfile_klogd
+    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $pidfile_klogd --name klogd --startas $binpath_klogd -- $KLOGD
+    log_end_msg $?
+    ;;
+  restart)
+    log_begin_msg "Restarting system log daemon..."
+    start-stop-daemon --stop --retry 5 --quiet --pidfile $pidfile_syslogd --name syslogd
+    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $pidfile_syslogd --name syslogd --startas $binpath_syslogd -- $SYSLOGD
+    log_end_msg $?
+    log_begin_msg "Reloading kernel log daemon..."
+    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry 3 --exec $binpath_klogd --pidfile $pidfile_klogd
+    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $pidfile_klogd --name klogd --startas $binpath_klogd -- $KLOGD
+    log_end_msg $?
+    ;;
+  reload-or-restart)
+    if running
+    then
+	$0 reload
+    else
+	$0 start
+    fi
+    ;;
+  status)
+    status syslogd
+    RETVAL=$?
+    status klogd
+    rval=$?
+    [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && exit $rval
+    exit $RETVAL
+    ;;
+  *)
+    log_success_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/sysklogd {start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload|reload-or-restart|status}"
+    exit 1
+esac
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/syslog.conf b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/syslog.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0849de1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/files/syslog.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#  /etc/syslog.conf	Configuration file for syslogd.
+#
+#  Ported from debian by Yu Ke <ke.yu@intel.com>
+#
+
+#
+# First some standard logfiles.  Log by facility.
+#
+
+auth,authpriv.*			/var/log/auth.log
+*.*;auth,authpriv.none		-/var/log/syslog
+#cron.*				/var/log/cron.log
+daemon.*			-/var/log/daemon.log
+kern.*				-/var/log/kern.log
+lpr.*				-/var/log/lpr.log
+mail.*				-/var/log/mail.log
+user.*				-/var/log/user.log
+
+#
+# Logging for the mail system.  Split it up so that
+# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
+#
+mail.info			-/var/log/mail.info
+mail.warn			-/var/log/mail.warn
+mail.err			/var/log/mail.err
+
+# Logging for INN news system
+#
+news.crit			/var/log/news.crit
+news.err			/var/log/news.err
+news.notice			-/var/log/news.notice
+
+#
+# Some `catch-all' logfiles.
+#
+*.=debug;\
+auth,authpriv.none;\
+news.none;mail.none	-/var/log/debug
+
+*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
+auth,authpriv.none;\
+cron,daemon.none;\
+mail,news.none		-/var/log/messages
+
+#
+# Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
+#
+*.emerg				*
+
+#
+# I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
+# console I usually leave idle.
+#
+#daemon,mail.*;\
+#news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
+#*.=debug;*.=info;\
+#*.=notice;*.=warn	/dev/tty8
+
+# The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility.  To use it,
+# you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
+#
+#    $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
+#
+# NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
+#      busy site..
+#
+daemon.*;mail.*;\
+news.err;\
+*.=debug;*.=info;\
+*.=notice;*.=warn	|/dev/xconsole
+