Re: Console Messages

[David Stroupe <dstroupe keyed-upsoftware com>]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> David Stroupe wrote:
>
> > I am running a RH7.2 installation.  I am doing driver developement 
> > and would like to view the (sometimes) useful prink messages from the 
> > driver in real time without having to type dmesg.  Is there a way to 
> > do this?
>
>
> There is a commented-out line in /etc/syslog.conf that looks like:
>
>     #kern.*        /dev/console
>
> If uncommented, it would spit all kernel messages onto the console.
> If you modify it to:
>
>     kern.*    /var/log/name-of-printk-messages-file
>
> then "kill -HUP `pidof syslogd`", kernel messages would end up in
> the named file which you can watch with "tail -f" rather than the
> console.
>
> When you're all done, don't forget to comment out the line and send
> the SIGHUP back to syslogd so the file doesn't grow too big.  Keep in
> mind that the normal log rotation scripts won't know about your new
> file, so they won't be processed by it.

Thanks Rick, just an additional question or two.  Of all the virtual 
consoles ctrl-alt -f1 etc, is one of them designated to be 'THE' 
console?  Do I need to reboot after making the /etc/syslog.conf change?

Thanks again.

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Best regards,
David Stroupe
Keyed-Up Software