Re: Decoding of addreses in kernel logs

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 02:07:01 EST


On Thu, 30 May 2002 10:57:50 +0400,
Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru> wrote:
>Are there any cases except oopses when decoding of addresses in kernel logs
>is needed? The reason is I'd like to switch from klogd+syslogd to other
>logging system and I was adviced to forget klogd and just get logs from
>/proc/kmsg and decode them with ksymoops. While I have no problem with it
>actually, my concern is - is it possible that some information in kernel
>logs can be decoded by klogd but not by ksymoops?

It is the other way around. ksymoops decodes far more than klogd does.
ksymoops has been continually extended as new diagnostics are added to
the kernel, klogd has not.

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