Kernel Message Redirection

mschutte · 09-10-2005, 06:13 AM

Hi all, I am looking for a way to redirect kernel messages to an alternative tty. I am annoyed of the boot messages appearing on the first console in Debian Sarge, and I want to get them to /dev/tty10, like SUSE Linux does.
Which configuration files do I have to change? Do I have to recompile the kernel (is the device to write messages to hard-coded)?

Thanks in advance,
mschutte

rtg · 09-10-2005, 12:06 PM

I wanted to see the all messages on tty12 and added such line in syslog.conf:

Code:

*.*   -/dev/tty12

If you want kernel-only messages:

Code:

kern.* -/dev/tty12

To disable the annoing postings by kernel into your current console, comment out the string that states

Code:

kern.*  /dev/console

Then there is a default log level of the console, but the above works, there's no necessity to continue modifications.

mschutte · 09-11-2005, 02:47 AM

Thank you very much. I additionally had to add a »dmesg -n1« to /etc/init.d/boot.misc to avoid the messages on the first console.

-- mschutte