Re: Jive -> Kernel (International Linux) (fwd)

Teknovore (tek@myth-drannor)
Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:18:04 -0330 (NST)


Neil Moore wrote:
>I don't like this -- we should have learned from Lose95 that important
>files should be human-readable. If this is done, there should be 2 log
>files -- one for the numbers, and one for English translations (the
>stuff you would post to the newsgroups and mailing lists). No matter
>what language your kernel is configured for, an English copy of log
>messages *always* needs to be kept (in addition to the non-text or non-
>English copy), as that is likely to get you the most help on linux-kernel,
>c.o.l.m, etc.

Actually, why not have one log file with messages like this:
42424242 - Bad stuff went down
31337666 - etc.
? That way you keep it down to one log file.

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