Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

[Dennis]

At 07:19 PM 10/23/2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:43:28PM -0400, Dennis wrote:
> > - FreeBSD will display kernel print messages with syslogd not running, and
> > linux will not.
>
>Linux will also when the console log level is set high enough (which it
>is by default, just it is usually too low after you killed klogd).
>Unqualified printks have level 4, so you need a level > that.
>Some distributions also unfortunately set bogus defaults or redirect
>the messages to specific virtual consoles.


Another linux caveat. Scads of undocumented and virtually undiscoverable 
behaviours :-)


db

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