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Sorry For Repeated Messages[ KERN_ALERT doesnt work]

  Sorry for the repeated messages, but I think there is some problem with my 
browser... 
 
Thanks. 
 
 
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 matrix reloaded wrote : 
>In file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel.h there is the define for KERN_ALERT :- 
> 
>#define       KERN_ALERT      "<1>"   /* action must be taken immediately     */ 
> 
>As you can see that KERN_ALERT is having value 1 and generally the 
>"console_loglevel" (i.e. the first value of "/proc/sys/kernel/printk") is 1 and thas 
why 
>it doesn't print all the printk messages which you try to print with 
><KERN_ALERT>... 
>Because it is the rule that "Messages with a higher priority than this will be printed 
>to the console". Just read "/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt"'s 
>printk section for more details. 
> 
>The work around to the problem is, just run the following command :- 
> 
>$ echo 8 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk 
> 
>This thing will cause messages from all the levels to go to the console... 
> 
> 
>Hope this helps... 
> 
>Thanks. 
>Sumit Sharma. 
> 
>On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 so usp wrote : 
> >Hi, 
> > 
> >Im implementing a syscall and I want to write some 
> >information on the user terminal. Ive heard that 
> >using printk(KERN_ALERT"String") could return "String" 
> >to the terminal, but it doesnt. It just modifies the 
> >file /var/log/messages. My distribution is Fedora Core 
> >2 (kernel 2.6.5). Did somebody get the same problem? 
> >Did I do something wrong? The syscall is working 
> >perfectly, the only problem is that I want to return 
> >information to the user, and using the copy_to_user 
> >function isnt appropriate, once there are lots of 
> >information (more than 5) I want to retrieve, with 
> >different types (not only string). 
> > 
> >Thanks 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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