On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:10:44PM +0500, Daniel Marian wrote: > Hello, > I want to log messages to the file /var/log/messages for my > module residing in the kernel using printk. > For all the trace messages that I log to the above file > I want to prefix the current system date and time. just use printk. It is the job of klogd + syslogd to append the time/date, and it does it by default. regards john -- "This is mindless pedantism up with which I will not put." - Donald Knuth on Pascal's lack of default: case statement -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/