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| author | James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2012-09-28 07:37:32 +0400 |
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| committer | James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2012-09-28 07:37:32 +0400 |
| commit | bf5308344527d015ac9a6d2bda4ad4d40fd7d943 (patch) | |
| tree | 566e61e2cfc648c374d15cfc8c661b73e1a471f8 /Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | |
| parent | 3585e96cd1049682b8a19a0b699422156e9d735b (diff) | |
| parent | 979570e02981d4a8fc20b3cc8fd651856c98ee9d (diff) | |
| download | linux-bf5308344527d015ac9a6d2bda4ad4d40fd7d943.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'v3.6-rc7' into next
Linux 3.6-rc7
Requested by David Howells so he can merge his key susbsystem work into
my tree with requisite -linus changesets.
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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: ======================== |