How to redirect kernel/console messages

[Tobias Speckbacher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Nupur
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:18 AM
> To: Count Of Dracula; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: How to redirect kernel/console messages
> 
> On 12/8/05, Count Of Dracula <shahkomal80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I have a querry here. I want to redirect the kernel messages to a
> > > file. These kernel messages are a result of increasing verbosity
of
> > > some modules while compiling kernel.
> > >
> > > The methods I have tried to redirect the messages to a file are:
> > >            command > file.log
> > >            command > file.log 2>&1
> > >            command | tee file.log
> > >
> > > But somehow all of them failed. The messages are not logging in
> > > /var/log/messages and cat be re-read by dmesg.
> > >
> > > Can you suggest me something else toredirect the messages to
kernel?

Try adding this line to /etc/syslogd.conf

kern.*                          /var/log/kernel

and restart syslogd (/sbin/service syslogd restart)

If this is to be a permanent situation I'd suggest modifying logrotate
accordingly, or else ...


> > >
> > > Thanks and regards,
> > > --
> > >      Nupur
> >
> > man printk , man syslogd
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dracula
> >
> 
> Well tried that as well but did not help me much...
> --
>      Nupur
> 
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