RE: printk problems...

Greaves Tristan TM (Tristan.Greaves@icl.com)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:04:35 -0000


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Hi Riley,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Riley Williams [mailto:rhw@bigfoot.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 6:58 PM
> To: Alan Cox; Linus Torvalds
> Cc: Greaves Tristan TM; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: printk problems...

> [Annoying "x.x.x.x sent a....." console messages]
> Perhaps an even simpler option would be to have these messages sent as
> KERN_DEBUG ones, as those are by default ignored, but can be enabled
> by adding or tweaking an entry in /etc/syslog.conf - I now have all
> KERN_DEBUG level messages sent to /var/log/kernel.debug so I can check
> what's going on...

I've opted, as per Alan's suggestion, to make it a sysctl option instead
(toggled using the /proc/sys filesystem). A lot cleaner and easier to play
with, imho.

Copy of the patch sent to the kernel list, and also to Alan for him to
hopefully implement.

Tris.

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