Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:12:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: How to wait for kernel messages? |
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Sebastian Piecha wrote:
> I have some problems with one NIC. Due to lack of time as an > workaround I'd like to wait for the kernel message "NETDEV WATCHDOG: > eth0: transmit timed out" and ifconfig down/up the NIC. > > How can I trigger any action by such a kernel message? Do I have to > grep the kernel log? > > Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Best regards, > Sebastian Piecha
`cat /proc/kmsg`
...or to wait forever for each message, just open /proc/kmsg and post a read. Note that kernel logger is also waiting for such messages so you might not get them all.
Of course the 'Unix-way' is to just do `tail -f /var/log/messages`, or whatever your log-file name is.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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