Thanks but didn't help :( My configurations in the rsyslog.conf file are still not working. I added the line kern.* <filename in my home dir> but the file remains empty and teh kernel messages are not there even in the /var/log/messages file. Thanks Vaibhav Jain On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Haran <jharan@bytemobile.com> wrote:
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*From:* kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org] *On Behalf Of *Vaibhav Jain *Sent:* Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:08 PM *To:* Jonathan Neuschäfer *Cc:* kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org *Subject:* Re: how to configure printk() in 2.6 kernel****
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Jonathan Neuschäfer < j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> wrote:****
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:38:03PM -0700, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ramesh.P <rameshpa@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Vaibhav,
Try /etc/rsyslog.conf. However you should be using /proc/sys/kernel/printk to really configure printk. ****
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Hi Ramesh,
As I mentioned /etc/syslog.conf is not there on my system. Could you
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tell me if the name has changed for the file in 2.6 kernel ? Also, does /proc/sys/kernel/printk provides for the same level of control ?****
Syslog is a user space program, that collects the kernel messages. So if you don't have /etc/syslog.conf on your system, it likely just means that you don't have a standard installation of the syslog program, which can have different reasons. AFAIK, syslog has been replaced by rsyslog or syslog-ng on modern desktop linux distros.
BTW, Ramesh told you to try /etc/rsyslog.conf (note the 'r'), not /etc/syslog.conf.
HTH, Jonathan Neuschäfer****
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Thanks for reply! I found the rsyslog.conf on my system. But ****
I am finding it hard to configure it. Actually I made some changes but they are not working.****
I made some changes to the kernel and wanted that they appear at either the console or ****
some other file. However the changes don't work.****
I tried adding the following lines (one at a time) ****
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kern.* /dev/console****
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kern.* <file in my home directory>****
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but on making these changes other kernel messages also stop showing up.*** *
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Can you please give me some idea as to why this might happen ?****
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-Thanks****
Vaibhav Jain****
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See if this helps:****
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echo 7 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk****
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Jeff Haran****
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