Re: [ptxdist] PTXdist klogd and syslogd

[dave festing <dave_festing@hotmail.com>]

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Thank you.
Dave

> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:18:18 +0100
> From: m.olbrich@pengutronix.de
> To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
> Subject: Re: [ptxdist] PTXdist klogd and syslogd
> 
> 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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