From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Aug 20 10:44:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 338AD37B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mxzilla4.xs4all.nl (mxzilla4.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B9243E6E for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@xs4all.nl) Received: from xs1.xs4all.nl (xs1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.80]) by mxzilla4.xs4all.nl (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7KHiO3i094702; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:44:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by xs1.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7KHiOr97301; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:44:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:44:24 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Alexander Leidinger , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timestamping kernel messages Message-ID: <20020820174424.GA97190@xs4all.nl> References: <20020820133215.0545063d.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <24056.1029843322@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <24056.1029843322@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p3 X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 01:35:22PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020820133215.0545063d.Alexander@Leidinger.net>, Alexander Leidinger wr > ites: > >Hi, > > > >what do you think about using timestamps in kernel messages? > > > >Long: > >I think it would be useful to have timestamps in kernel warnings, e.g. > >(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state > >should be prefixed by a timestamp to be able to determine the importance > >of messages / make it easier to correlate this messages with other > >events just by looking at the console. > > I think we need to revamp the console/logging system in toto. > > I think we should have a pseudo-device for console/log use, which stores > thing in a circular buffer. Didn't do SysV something like that? > Syslogd would then retreive stuff from that buffer, somewhat like what > it does today. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message