Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:52:48 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: AGP bogosities
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On Friday 11 March 2005 17:33, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:26:14PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>> Does no-one read dmesg output any more?
>
>For many people it's overly verbose and long --- so I assume they
> just tune it out.
>
>Sometimes I wonder if it would be a worth-while effort to trim the
>dmesg boot text down to what users really *need* to know.  We could
>retain most of the other stuff at a different log-level which would
> be exposed by a kernel command line parameter or something during
> boot for when people have problems.

With all due respect to the people that it will take to make that 
happen, thats a heck of a good idea.  However, what I'd like to see 
is a difference between whats output to the screen during bootup (set 
that to relatively quiet unless a problem is hit) but to continue to 
log the full output to /var/log/dmesg-$date when the ring is dumped 
and syslog can then take the rest of it.

Overwriting /var/log/dmesg at every boot removes a lot of forensic 
info that could come in handier than sliced bread and bottled beer at 
times.  Let rotatelog take care of deleting anything more than a week 
out of date so they don't take up space once their usefullness has 
expired.

How many 'aye's do I hear?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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