how to configure printk() in 2.6 kernel

[Vaibhav Jain]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Vaibhav,
> > >
> > > Try /etc/rsyslog.conf. However you should be using
> > > /proc/sys/kernel/printk to really configure printk.
> > >
> [snip]
> >
> > Hi Ramesh,
> >
> > As I mentioned /etc/syslog.conf is not there on my system. Could you
> please
> > 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 AFAIK, syslog has been replaced by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
>



 Hi,

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)

kern.*              /dev/console

kern.*             <file in my home directory>


but on making these changes other kernel messages also stop showing up.

Can you please give me some idea as to why this might happen ?

-Thanks
Vaibhav Jain
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