On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:29:27AM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 11/15/2010 09:42 AM, stan wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:25:08 -0600
> "Ryan O'Hara"<rohara(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Those messages on the console (with the timestamp) are from
>> dmesg. These are visible on the console in F14 because rc.sysinit no
>> longer sets the dmesg logging level, thus all messages from dmesg end
>> up being written to the console. See dmesg(1) for more
>> information. If you have an older Fedora machine handy you can look at
>> rc.sysinit where you will find the following:
>>
>> Fix console loglevel
>> if [ -# n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
>> /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
>> fi
>>
>> This is missing from F14.
>>
>> I'm of the opinion that this should be fixed. Printing dmesg messages
>> to the console by default is too much.
>>
>> I was able to get things back to normal by adding 'dmesg -n 3' to
>> rc.sysinit. If there is a better way, please let me know. Also, if
>> there is a compelling reason that this was removed from F14, I'd be
>> interested to know what that reason is.
>
> Thank you for posting this.
>
> I used the above with an else in case $LOGLEVEL wasn't defined. I
> assume that is the reason it was dropped, but if it still exists, I'll
> use it.
>
> #Fix console loglevel
> if [ -# n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
> /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
> else
> /bin/dmesg -n 3
> fi
Uh, the F13 version actually reads:
# Fix console loglevel
if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
/bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
fi
"if [ -# n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then" is incorrect and will probably make
the
shell mark the line as an error.
Sorry. That error originated in my post. Assuming cut-and-paste error
on my part. Thanks for catching this.
Ryan