[syslog-ng] klogctl: Invalid argument

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Wed May 11 18:08:15 CEST 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:53 -0500, micah milano wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Whenever I stop/start/restart syslog-ng, I see the entirity of my
> kernel buffer spit onto the screen, as well as the following message
> sent to STDERR:
> 
> klogctl: Invalid argument
> 
> I cannot figure out where this comes from, I do not have a program
> called klogctl on my system, and I've looked through the syslog-ng
> sources to see if I could find anything there, and I can only find an
> item in the NEWS file:
> 
> ChangeLog:      * utils/klogctl.c: New file to control kernel log level
> NEWS:   * Added klogctl program to control kernel logging level on Linux
> 
> but there is no utils/ folder at all, nor is there anything else
> related to klogctl.

klogctl has been removed as the same functionality can be achieved by
using "dmesg -n"

The error message above is probably caused by some kind of packaging
problem as syslog-ng itself does not touch kernel log settings.

-- 
Bazsi



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