Balazs Scheidler wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 16:11 -0700, Bruce Penrod wrote:
As a workaround, I tried using klogd with syslog-ng. I did turn off the syslog-ng source for /proc/kmsg. Now I don't see kernel messages on my console, but I don't get any kernel message logging either. Again, should this work? I don't see that there should be any special source definition in syslog-ng.conf for this to work.
In addition to Sandor's response, I'd like to add that this combination should work, however klogd uses its own syslog() implementation instead of using the one in libc, and it does not support unix-stream() /dev/log, only unix-dgram(). That's probably the reason why it does not work.Thanks to both Sandor and Balazs for the answers to my kernel logging questions.
I did not know about /proc/sys/kernel/printk, or that dmesg had the capability to set it, just like klogd. Learn something new all the time. I was using the unix-stream source for /dev/log. Might be good to explain the need to use the datagram source for klogd in the reference docs, although I don't see why anyone would want to use it now. I only tried it because of the console logging issue, which Sandor's suggestion has solved nicely. Thanks for the quick responses. Bruce