Re: The stability crisis

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 03:38:39 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, George wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>
> >I don't want to use a serial console becuase I don't have another machine
> >in the vicinity of 20 feet that would be capable of easilly logging
> >kernel messages.
>
> You're complaining the kernel developers are releasing a bad kernel and
> then claim you cannot get the required information to fix it because it is
> "inconvient" to you?
>
> What a joke.
>
> A cheap $10 serial cable and 'minicom' will suffice for a serial console.

I've found 'logserial' actually very useful for logging stuff from
a serial port. It can be found by searching freshmeat.net, as well as on
metalab, IIRC. 'logserial | logger'

Stephen

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