Re: [ptxdist] PTXdist klogd and syslogd

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 08:28:36AM +0000, Dave wrote:
> When you select both Busybox syslogd and Busybox klogd you get the message
> "klogd should not be used together with syslog to kernel printk buffer".
> 
> At first I thought this meant you can't use both logging facilities at the
> same time.  However, PTXCONF_BUSYBOX_SYSLOGD help says "when used in
> conjunction with klogd ...
> 
> I would expect that if you could not use both at the same time then
> menuconfig would have the necessary rules to ensure that you didn't.
> 
> Would someone explain in more detail what that message is trying to convey?

I have no idea. The whole busybox configuration is just imported from the
busybox source tree. So you best bet is to ask busybox upstream about this.

> If you can use both together can you also use Busybox's klogd with inetutils
> syslogd?  (You don't get the "warning" message when you choose those two).

klogd just feeds the kernel messages into syslog. It should work, unless
the syslog daemon reads the kernel messages directly.

Michael

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