Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:40:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: default syslog priority for kernel messages Message-ID: <199809020040.RAA09710@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809012223.PAA17824@bubba.whistle.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Sep 1, 98 03:23:56 pm
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> In syslogd.c, the default priority for messages from the kernel is > "critical": > > #define DEFSPRI (LOG_KERN|LOG_CRIT) > > It seems that in practice, this is not really appropriate. > Only rarely are kernel-generated messages truly critical. > > Would anyone object if this were changed to be NOTICE instead? > > [ It seems like the real solution is to change all the kernel code > that uses "printf(...)" to use "log(LOG_XXX, ...)" instead, where > XXX is the appropriate priority for that particular message (anyone > interested in a mini-project?? :-) > > IMHO, printf() in the kernel should be deprecated in favor of log(). ] The only problem is that it's possible to printf from the kernel without logging, and it may frequently be desirable to send a message to the console without logging it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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