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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: What does /usr/adm/klogpp do?
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Nov6.095645.8826@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 11:56:26 GMT
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- In <1992Nov6.095645.8826@oracle.us.oracle.com> jcreight@us.oracle.com (Jonathan Creighton) writes:
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- | The default /etc/syslog.conf in Irix 4.0.1 pipes most kernel messages
- | through a utility /usr/adm/klogpp. What does this program do? Is
- | it invoked once for each message?
-
- It turns kernel messages that involve disks with mounted filesystems
- into slightly more user friendly forms that give the filesystem
- name.
-
- It is run for every *kernel* message logged, in the shipped
- configuration. If you are getting enough kernel messages
- for that to be a performance problem, you have a lot of other
- problems besides!
-
- One of these days we'll add a comment to syslog.conf explaining
- this...
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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