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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:28:46 -0600
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors
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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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  [Mark Hahn]
> > reinventing /proc/kmsg and klogd would be tre gross.

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]
> Well, only one process can read kmsg and get notified about new
> messages at any time, so that makes the monitoring depend on
> klogd/syslogd working, which given a write error by syslog might not
> be the case...

So rewrite klogd to do something much simpler for serious errors (yes
they will be tagged as such) before trying to pass them on to syslogd.
Or does it already do this?  It's a userspace problem.

Peter
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