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| author | Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> | 2012-08-10 01:24:51 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-08-14 14:33:33 -0700 |
| commit | 6556bfde65b1d4bea29eb2e1566398676792eaaa (patch) | |
| tree | 0ba1f0cff9c065c1cbc4080fc2abc1eabbf99a0d /Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | |
| parent | 6bdb7fe31046ac50b47e83c35cd6c6b6160a475d (diff) | |
netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of kernel messages
There are at least 4 implementations of netcat with the BSD-based
being the only one that has to be used without the -p switch to
specify the listening port.
Jan Engelhardt suggested to add an example for socat(1).
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt index 8d022073e3e..2e9e0ae2cd4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt @@ -51,8 +51,23 @@ Built-in netconsole starts immediately after the TCP stack is initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied address. -The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>', -'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd. +The remote host has several options to receive the kernel messages, +for example: + +1) syslogd + +2) netcat + + On distributions using a BSD-based netcat version (e.g. Fedora, + openSUSE and Ubuntu) the listening port must be specified without + the -p switch: + + 'nc -u -l -p <port>' / 'nc -u -l <port>' or + 'netcat -u -l -p <port>' / 'netcat -u -l <port>' + +3) socat + + 'socat udp-recv:<port> -' Dynamic reconfiguration: ======================== |