[SOLVED] Help reg:message supressing

shankar.489 · 02-16-2011, 03:20 AM

hi Folks,

iam a newbie in linux kernel, while walking the some older project code i saw a statement which is as under

echo 3 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk

with comments "off all console messages above it"

can anybody please explain me

what does it mean?

how it will work?

thanks in advance

regards
shankar

corp769 · 02-16-2011, 03:24 AM

http://www.de-brauwer.be/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=printk

Found that doing a very simple google search... It should contain the information you are looking for. Please search before you post new threads.

shankar.489 · 02-18-2011, 02:01 AM

Got it thanq

corp769 · 02-18-2011, 10:37 AM

Not a problem man.