On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:00:10PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > 1. I use netconsole on almost all of my machines. > 2. When I reboot one of them, it sends the kernel messages to the console > logging server. > 3. However, whenever I reboot it spams the console and every xterm open > with the following: > > Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wed Jun 6 17:43:10 2007 ... > p34 sdb3> > > Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wed Jun 6 17:43:10 2007 ... > p34 sda3> > > Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wed Jun 6 17:43:10 2007 ... > p34 sdb2> > > Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wed Jun 6 17:43:10 2007 ... > p34 sda2> > > Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wed Jun 6 17:43:10 2007 ... > p34 sdb1> > > Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wed Jun 6 17:43:10 2007 ... > p34 sda1> > > I also tried: > > # Send p34 messages to their own file. > @192.168.0.1 /var/log/p34.log
Your syslogd is probably getting confused by messages of the form <foo> (and it rightly should be) and deciding they're maximal priority. You probably have a separate clause somewhere that directs all emergency messages to the console. > Do I need to be running some sort of special netconsole server and send to > a different port to avoid this spam? A lot of people simply run netcat. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/