Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:56:17 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 4/9] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation |
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On 11/07/07, Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Joel Becker wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:40:22AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > IMHO something that mentions /proc/sys/kernel/printk would be better. > > > > > > You don't need to have built with SysRq support for that, it's clearly > > > more flexible than the ignore_loglevel option and wouldn't require a > > > reboot either. I'll send out an updated patch shortly. > > > > Why not dmesg -n? We've been using that for years. Or is there > > some extra change in /proc/sys/kernel/printk? > > Yes, "dmesg -n" sounds the most straightforward. There are multiple ways > of course, for some reason I've always used /proc/sys/kernel/printk for > this (which has the extra "feature" that it accepts values greater than > 8 too :-) > Why not mention all the various methods, dmesg -n, /proc/sys/kernel/printk, SysRq, ignore_loglevel ??
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