Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Dirk Gouders > <goud...@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> wrote: >> >> From d756d2750e4cf07d3c0942dc3c491d57631d4338 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Dirk Gouders <goud...@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> >> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:20:16 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of >> kernel messages >> >> There are at least 4 implementations of netcat with the BSD-based >> being the only one that has to be used without the -p switch to >> specify the listening port. >> >> Jan Engelhardt suggested to add an example for socat(1). > > > Looks good, but you missed your SOB.
Thanks for noticing that, attached is the amended patch. Dirk >From b3aec70d785d338b1b643fece6606cd32addaf0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dirk Gouders <goud...@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:20:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of kernel messages There are at least 4 implementations of netcat with the BSD-based being the only one that has to be used without the -p switch to specify the listening port. Jan Engelhardt suggested to add an example for socat(1). Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <goud...@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> --- Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt index 8d02207..2e9e0ae2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt @@ -51,8 +51,23 @@ Built-in netconsole starts immediately after the TCP stack is initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied address. -The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>', -'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd. +The remote host has several options to receive the kernel messages, +for example: + +1) syslogd + +2) netcat + + On distributions using a BSD-based netcat version (e.g. Fedora, + openSUSE and Ubuntu) the listening port must be specified without + the -p switch: + + 'nc -u -l -p <port>' / 'nc -u -l <port>' or + 'netcat -u -l -p <port>' / 'netcat -u -l <port>' + +3) socat + + 'socat udp-recv:<port> -' Dynamic reconfiguration: ======================== -- 1.7.8.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
