hi, not sure if this question makes any sense but, currently, the man page for syslog(2) claims: The conventional meaning of the loglevel is defined in .I <linux/kernel.h> as follows: .nf #define KERN_EMERG "<0>" /* system is unusable */ #define KERN_ALERT "<1>" /* action must be taken immediately */ #define KERN_CRIT "<2>" /* critical conditions */ #define KERN_ERR "<3>" /* error conditions */ #define KERN_WARNING "<4>" /* warning conditions */ #define KERN_NOTICE "<5>" /* normal but significant condition */ #define KERN_INFO "<6>" /* informational */ #define KERN_DEBUG "<7>" /* debug-level messages */ first, those defines don't seem to exist anymore -- in userspace, one finds definitions in <sys/syslog.h>: #define LOG_EMERG 0 /* system is unusable */ #define LOG_ALERT 1 /* action must be taken immediately */ #define LOG_CRIT 2 /* critical conditions */ #define LOG_ERR 3 /* error conditions */ #define LOG_WARNING 4 /* warning conditions */ #define LOG_NOTICE 5 /* normal but significant condition */ #define LOG_INFO 6 /* informational */ #define LOG_DEBUG 7 /* debug-level messages */ also, in kernelspace, there is the newer header file kern_levels.h which defines log levels differently these days: #define KERN_SOH "\001" /* ASCII Start Of Header */ #define KERN_SOH_ASCII '\001' #define KERN_EMERG KERN_SOH "0" /* system is unusable */ #define KERN_ALERT KERN_SOH "1" /* action must be taken immediately */ #define KERN_CRIT KERN_SOH "2" /* critical conditions */ #define KERN_ERR KERN_SOH "3" /* error conditions */ #define KERN_WARNING KERN_SOH "4" /* warning conditions */ #define KERN_NOTICE KERN_SOH "5" /* normal but significant condition */ #define KERN_INFO KERN_SOH "6" /* informational */ #define KERN_DEBUG KERN_SOH "7" /* debug-level messages */ #define KERN_DEFAULT KERN_SOH "d" /* the default kernel loglevel */ i have no idea how any of that should affect the man page for syslog(2), and possibly others. thoughts? or am i just totally misunderstanding something? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html