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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-08-22 23:21:38 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-08-22 23:21:38 +0200 |
| commit | 1304a7343b30fc4f16045412efdbb4179a3d9255 (patch) | |
| tree | 83d667ac4f62e30f70305ce4cc7e030e3465f92e /Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | |
| parent | team: add support for non-ethernet devices (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) (diff) | |
| download | linux-1304a7343b30fc4f16045412efdbb4179a3d9255.tar.xz linux-1304a7343b30fc4f16045412efdbb4179a3d9255.zip | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt index 8d022073e3ef..2e9e0ae2cd45 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: ======================== |