On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:15, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > a colleague showed me an embedded system he was working on that is > based on busybox-1.1.3, and was wondering why he wasn't getting his > DEBUG-level messages logged to /var/log/messages. while i was getting > ready to explain stuff like /proc/sys/kernel/printk to him, he got an > email from one of his co-workers telling him to: > > echo "7" > /var/run/loglevel > killall HUP syslogd > > or something to that effect. and it worked. > > huh? where exactly does syslogd consult /var/run/loglevel?
I don't see it anywhere in the source. > i > downloaded the source and poked around, and i don't see any reference > to that file. am i just being dense? why did that work? thanks. Maybe /var/run/loglevel is a symlink to /proc/sys/kernel/printk or some such? -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
