Thanks again, Werner.
The symlink doesn't seem to work,
but I think I may be able to rework '/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfigCode:root@Microknoppix:/etc# ls syslog-knoppix
ls: cannot access syslog-knoppix: No such file or directory
root@Microknoppix:/etc# ln -s /usr/sbin/rsyslogd /sbin/syslogd
ln: failed to create symbolic link `/sbin/syslogd': File exists
root@Microknoppix:/etc#
to get what I want. Just replacing log start with 7.2 code may be enough.
Thanks for the clues.