Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Logging More Messages? | Date | Mon, 6 May 1996 17:43:25 -0500 (CDT) | From | (Mike Castle) |
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Amazingly enough Andrew E. Mileski said: > I assume this happens because sysklogd reads the messages from > the scrollback buffer after it is started, in order to log > messages which have gone by already. It just isn't reading back > far enough, as the info is there in the scrollback buffer > (I can see it).
Actually, it's an internal buffer. See kernel/printk.c. It's 8k.
If you're generating more than 8k of data, perhaps you can rearrange things to start up syslog sooner.
> (kern.* /var/adm/kernel). The messages don't appear,
As a sidebar, /var/adm is deprecated, replaced by /var/log. Minor point, I suppose.
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