Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 11:16:18 EST


On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote:
> At 07:19 PM 10/23/2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:43:28PM -0400, Dennis wrote:
> > > - FreeBSD will display kernel print messages with syslogd not running, and
> > > linux will not.
> >
> >Linux will also when the console log level is set high enough (which it
> >is by default, just it is usually too low after you killed klogd).
> >Unqualified printks have level 4, so you need a level > that.
> >Some distributions also unfortunately set bogus defaults or redirect
> >the messages to specific virtual consoles.
>
> Another linux caveat. Scads of undocumented and virtually
> undiscoverable behaviours :-)

Don't blame others for the fact that you haven't read
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt ...

Rik

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