[syslog-ng]syslog-ng... - klog on console now

Achim Gsell achim@cybercity.ch
Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:45:11 +0100


On Wednesday 12 February 2003 22:45, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2003-02-12 22:37:14 +0100, Peter Bieringer wrote:
> > I've done this, but now kernel messages will appear on console now
> > also (thanks to serial console support...) at same time like in
> > defined file.
> >
> > Why?
>
> man klogd:
>
>        By  default  the  klogd  daemon  executes a system call to
>        inhibit all kernel messages (except for panics) from being
>        displayed  on  the  console.
>
> (actually, I think newer versions of klogd don't do that anymore by
> default, but the startup scripts probably called it with a sensible
> value for the -c flag)
>
> syslog-ng doesn't do that, so you have to write the right value(s) to
> /proc/sys/kernel/printk yourself.

Add the line 

dmesg -n1

to the boot-script before starting syslog-ng 

Achim