Re: [Q] how to use syslogd to debug kernel ?

[Jesper Juhl]

On 9/2/05, liyu@WAN <liyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
>     I know kernel oops can be seen by run 'dmesg', but if
> kernel crashed, we can not run it.   so I reconfigure syslogd
> to support remote forward, the debug machine content of

When the kernel crashes there's no guarantee that messages will reach
syslog. Actually there's no guarantee of anything - the kernel is
dead.
If you want to capture Oops messages in a more reliable fashion, then
use a serial console, netconsole or console on line-printer.

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Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
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