Re: kmsg --- get the boot messages

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:42:42PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    (I think the default here is /dev/log, so should we change to
>    settrans /dev/log /hurd/streamdev/kmsg ?).
> 
> /dev/klog, /dev/log is the socket used for normal syslog messages.

Right, my memory was faulty. I will change the MAKEDEV script in the
Hurd package at next upload (I won't make an upload just for that, though).
 
>    I am not positive about the current version, but the version of
>    syslogd in CVS of inetutils has this support.
> 
> The BSD syslogd (from which the inetutils syslogd is derived) can read
> from /dev/klog, which works fine under Linux for me.

Which strengthens my vague recollection that the current syslogd package
already can do that, too.

Thanks,
Marcus