Re: Query about /var/log/messages

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"Leonidas ." <leonidas137@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi List,
>
> Kernel maintains a circular log buffer and output of printk is stored
> in that log buffer,
> this log buffer survives reboots also.

Hmm.  While files like /var/log/messages survive reboot, the contents
of the RAM where the printk ring buffer are not preserved across
reboots, as far as I know.

> Is it possible to create a seperate file or dir inside /var/log for
> logging only my kernel
> modules messages?

What syslog daemon do you have?  The answers for a regular syslog
daemon and for syslog-ng would be different.  On second thought, the
answer to my question begins a conversation that isn't really on topic
in kernelnewbies.

> On my machine I see many files and dir inside /var/log/. Is it doable
> from a module?

Userland tools usually decide what to do with the messages coming from
the kernel.  There are lots of ways besides printk of getting messages
from the kernel into a file, though.  The debugfs feature is one
example.

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