[clug] where to add "dmesg -n1" (debian)

[steve jenkin]

My thanks to everyone who replied.

I went with Jeremy's suggestion.
The 'printk' line in /etc/sysctl.conf is commented out in Debian Lenny
(5), but not so in Ubuntu. Hmmmmmm...

Happy User now without the console being clobbered with 'noise'.

cheers
s


Jeremy Kerr wrote on 7/02/10 2:28 PM:
> Steve,
> 
>> It's not obvious to me where in the boot process I should put it.
>>
>> What do others do?
>> Other distros?
> 
> This would be best done with a sysctl setting. On boot, the values in 
> /etc/sysctl.conf will be read into /proc/sys/.
> 
> The value you want to set is kernel.printk. It's a list of four numbers. From 
> the kernel doc:
> 
> printk:
> 
> The four values in printk denote: console_loglevel,
> default_message_loglevel, minimum_console_loglevel and
> default_console_loglevel respectively.
> 
> These values influence printk() behavior when printing or
> logging error messages. See 'man 2 syslog' for more info on
> the different loglevels.
> 
> - console_loglevel: messages with a higher priority than
>   this will be printed to the console
> - default_message_level: messages without an explicit priority
>   will be printed with this priority
> - minimum_console_loglevel: minimum (highest) value to which
>   console_loglevel can be set
> - default_console_loglevel: default value for console_loglevel
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 


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