Re: dmesg command

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Samuel Thibault, le Mon 31 Oct 2011 12:50:57 +0100, a écrit :
> Svante Signell, le Mon 31 Oct 2011 12:45:11 +0100, a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 12:20 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Thomas Schwinge, le Mon 31 Oct 2011 10:20:39 +0100, a écrit :
> > > >             # Save kernel messages in /var/log/dmesg
> > > >             if which dmesg >/dev/null 2>&1
> > > >             then
> > > >                     [ -f /var/log/dmesg ] && savelog -q -p -c 5 /var/log/dmesg
> > > >                     dmesg -s 524288 > /var/log/dmesg
> > > >                     chgrp adm /var/log/dmesg || :
> > > 
> > > d'oh.
> > > 
> > > apt will have to find another way than dmesg, then.
> > 
> > Is proposing a change to the the bootlogs script forbidden/impractical?
> 
> It will be harder to justify than chaging the just-added code in apt.
> Inverting the tests will make kfreebsd use /dev/klog instead of dmesg,
> it's not an innocent change.

(the idea of just catting /var/log/dmesg was interesting, but the
example above shows that it'd be considered convoluted, we should
probably just implement a proper dmesg which eats /dev/klog without
blocking)

Samuel