Re: Boot Messages

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:03:55PM -0700, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> I "hot wired" include/confpaths.h by putting PATH_KLOG into it and the
> resulting binary did have /dev/klog support but then syslogd put the messages
> into /var/log/user.log not /var/log/kern.log
> 
> from /etc/syslog.conf
> kern.*                /var/log/kern.log
> user.*                /var/log/user.log

I can not explain this.  syslogd.c logs kernel messags from the klog file
with the function printsys, which uses DEFSPRI which has the LOG_KERN bit
set.  Could you run in debug mode and/or set a breakpoint on printsys to see
what is going on?

> > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:46:13PM -0700, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> > > What am I doing wrong here?
> > > 
> > > # mkdir cvs
> > > # cd cvs
> > > # cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/inetutils login
> > > [just hit enter for the password]
> > > # cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/inetutils co -r
> > > release1_4_0 inetutils
> > > [inetutils downloads]
> > > # mkdir inetutils-obj
> > > # cd inetutils
> > > # ./autogen.sh
> > > [blah]
> > > # cd ../inetutils-obj
> > > # ../inetutils/configure --with-path-klog=/dev/klog
> > > [blah]
> > > # make
> > > [blah]
> > > # make install
> > > 
> > > The resulting syslogd does not have /dev/klog support.

This might very well be because of the trailing "no" in the "paths" file. 
You could try to understand and debug the IU_CONFIG_PATHS macro in
acinclude.m4, where the error would lie.  Somehow the precedence is messed
up here.

If you have /dev/klog, it should also find and use it automatically.  If
that doesn't work, the error must again be in the IU_CONFIG_PATHS macro. 
Maybe it is the same bug even.

Thanks,
Marcus

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