From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 12 11:44:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF0C3F44 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:44:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 61D432DC07; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:43:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 524667811; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:43:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E64510E12 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:43:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:43:40 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel messages, msgbuf and syslog Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was wondering if there is any way currently to emit a message from within kernel, so that syslogd can pick it up later on, but without spoiling the standard message buffer. AFAIK, there is no way to do it right now. The reason I'm asking is that quite a few programs (most notably ipfw) spit countless messages to kernel msgbuf, thus overwriting any other important info. Is there any interest among people to implement such feature? Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message