Re: [Q] how to use syslogd to debug kernel ?

Jesper Juhl
2005-09-02T09:21:57Z

On 9/2/05, liyu@WAN <liyu@ccoss.com.cn> wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I know kernel oops can be seen by run 'dmesg', but if
> kernel crashed, we can not run it. so I reconfigure syslogd
> to support remote forward, the debug machine content of

When the kernel crashes there's no guarantee that messages will reach
syslog. Actually there's no guarantee of anything - the kernel is
dead.
If you want to capture Oops messages in a more reliable fashion, then
use a serial console, netconsole or console on line-printer.

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