<div>Thanks but didn't help :(</div>
<div>My configurations in the rsyslog.conf file are still not working.</div>
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<div>I added the line </div>
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<div>but the file remains empty and teh kernel messages are not there even in the /var/log/messages file.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
<div>Vaibhav Jain</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Haran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jharan@bytemobile.com">jharan@bytemobile.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a href="mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org" target="_blank">kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org" target="_blank">kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vaibhav Jain<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jonathan Neuschäfer<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org" target="_blank">kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: how to configure printk() in 2.6 kernel<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Jonathan Neuschäfer <<a href="mailto:j.neuschaefer@gmx.net" target="_blank">j.neuschaefer@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:38:03PM -0700, Vaibhav Jain wrote:<br>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ramesh.P <<a href="mailto:rameshpa@gmail.com" target="_blank">rameshpa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>> > Hi Vaibhav,<br>> ><br>> > Try /etc/rsyslog.conf. However you should be using<br>> > /proc/sys/kernel/printk to really configure printk.<br>> ><u></u><u></u></p></div>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class="MsoNormal">><br>> Hi Ramesh,<br>><br>> As I mentioned /etc/syslog.conf is not there on my system. Could you please<br>> tell me if the name has changed for the file in 2.6 kernel ? Also, does<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Syslog is a user space program, that collects the kernel messages.<br>So if you don't have /etc/syslog.conf on your system, it likely just<br>means that you don't have a standard installation of the syslog program,<br>
which can have different reasons. AFAIK, syslog has been replaced by<br>rsyslog or syslog-ng on modern desktop linux distros.<br><br>BTW, Ramesh told you to try /etc/rsyslog.conf (note the 'r'), not<br>/etc/syslog.conf.<br>
<br>HTH,<br><span style="COLOR: #888888"> Jonathan Neuschäfer</span><u></u><u></u></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for reply! I found the rsyslog.conf on my system. But <u></u><u></u></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I made some changes to the kernel and wanted that they appear at either the console or <u></u><u></u></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">but on making these changes other kernel messages also stop showing up.<u></u><u></u></p></div>
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