On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 06:43:15PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'm supporting a number of consumer devices (e.g. small NAS devices) > in Debian. They typically don't export the serial console and don't > have any other output devices. We perform the installation via SSH > on such devices and start SSH automatically when the system boots so > people can login. This works pretty well but sometimes a device stops > to boot for no good reason. This is usually really hard to debug > since we don't have any logs at all. > > I could activate netconsole in order to see kernel messages but then I > still wouldn't see anything that's printed by the ramdisk and later > when services are started. Ideally, I'd like to have an option for > netconsole to show every message that is also shown on the console. > > Do you think that would be possible?
It is, definitely, you just need to wire up a tty struct's write method to netconsole's and add it to the console registration. But I haven't had any time to work on this in a while. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
