Hopefully final in a serie of minor doc-related updates in this "iteration."

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* remote log uploading via HTTP
* lkl and lklk are now llk and llkk to avoid confusion
* llk and llkk are now programs that run logkeys-start.sh/-stop.sh scripts
* also recognize "HID" USB keyboard devices
* bug fixes
v0.1.0 (2010-01-05)

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README
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You can use these two setuid root programs (llk and llkk) for starting and
stopping the keylogger quickly and covertly. You can modify the .sh scripts as
you like. As the programs are installed setuid, the root password need not be
provided at runtime.
you like. As the two programs are installed with setuid bit set, the root
password need not be provided at their runtime.
Default log file is /var/log/logkeys.log and is not readable by others.
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4. Troubleshooting
===============================================================================
4.1 no output in the log file
4.1 empty log file or 'Error opening input event device'
-------------------------------------------------
After you run logkeys successfully, if you open the log file and see only the
'Logging started...' and 'Logging stopped...' tag without any keypress
"contents," it is very likely that logkeys got your device id wrong.
The solution is to determine the correct event device id, and the run
This may also apply if you get the following error:
Error opening input event device '/dev/input/event-1'
The solution is to determine the correct event device id, and then run
logkeys with --device (-d) switch, specifying that device manually.
The procedure for manually learning the device id to use is as follows:
As root, for each device eventX in /dev/input/, where X is a number between 0
and 31 inclusively, write:
As root, for each existing device eventX in /dev/input/, where X is a number
between 0 and 31 inclusively, write:
$ cat /dev/input/eventX
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next device.
If this happened to be your issue, *please* submit a bug report, attaching
your /proc/bus/input/devices file, and specifying which was the correct id.
your /proc/bus/input/devices file as well as and specifying which was the
correct id.
4.2 logkeys outputs wrong characters:
4.2 logkeys outputs wrong characters
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It is very likely that you will see only some characters recognized, without
any hope for Shift and AltGr working even slightly correct, especially when