[wplug] using printk

Rick Smith rick at rbsmith.com
Wed Nov 13 10:30:15 EST 2002


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:20:40AM -0500, Henry Umansky wrote:
> When using printk("string") in a kernel module, where does it print to??  I 
> thought it would print to /var/log/messages but it is not there.

My understanding is it writes it in a circular queue
accessable somewhere in /proc and that is somehow redirectable
to files using syslogd.  If that's the case, then read
manpage for syslogd.  If it's not, well, then, I don't know :(

-- Rick



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