On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:34:13 +1100,
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>>
>> ksymoops was meant to be separate from the kernel. It is separate in
>> 2.3 but Alan Cox did not like the idea of tearing it out of the 2.2
>> kernels so we settled for a message instead. The code in kernel 2.2
>> scripts/ksymoops is way out of date.
>
>Okay, now we have rife confusion. Maybe this should be mentioned
>somewhere? Saying it is obsolete is one thing. Maybe it should
>say it is completely useless. I fully support ripping it out
>considering at the moment it can only confuse people.
The message says
WARNING: This version of ksymoops is obsolete.
WARNING: The current version can be obtained from ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/ksymoops
The 2.2 kernel scripts/ksymoops code works but is out of date, that is,
it is obsolete. Where is the confusion?
>> ksymoops 2.3.3 works on all kernels from 2.0 onwards. But if other
>> code like klogd stamps on the report before it gets to ksymoops, there
>> is nothing I can do about it. That is why there is a patch in the
>> ksymoops directory against klogd, to preserve the data that ksymoops
>> need.
>
>Again, could it say this somewhere? And what exactly in the report
>do klogd stomp on?
It does say this, in /pub/ksymoops/v2.3/README.
patch-sysklogd-1-3-31-ksymoops-1.gz
A patch against sysklogd 1-3-31 to preserve
information that ksymoops needs to do its job.
This patch has been accepted by the sysklogd
maintainer and should appear in the next release
of sysklogd.
I am not responsible for sysklogd, the best I can do is publish a patch
that I believe is required and hope that people read the README file.
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