> From: jbe@pengutronix.de
> To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:26:00 +0100
> CC: dave_festing@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [ptxdist] PTXdist klogd and syslogd
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> On Wednesday 20 November 2013 15:07:59 Jürgen Beisert wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 October 2013 09:28:36 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?
> >
> > You mean this message in the menuconfig?
> >
> > [*] syslogd
> > [....]
> > [*] Linux kernel printk buffer support
> > [*] klogd
> > --- klogd should not be used together with syslog to kernel printk buffer <---- this one? [ ] Use the klogctl() interface
> >
> > This is because "Linux kernel printk buffer support" in 'syslogd' and
> > 'klogd' do the same.
>
> Ups, forget this description. They do not the same. This option just puts the
> logging data into the printk buffer. This would end in an endless loop. klogd
> grabs the data from the printk buffer, forwards it to the syslogd daemon,
> which forwards it again into the printk buffer. That is why this warning is
> shown in the menu.
>
> If you want kernel messages in your logs, you need the klogd.
>
> jbe
>
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