Re: netconsole problem

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:45:52PM +0100, JaniD++ wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:23:23PM +0100, JaniD++ wrote:
> > > Hello, list,
> > >
> > > I have a little problem, with netconsole.
> > > It does not work for me.
> > >
> > > On the "client":
> > >
> > > modprobe netconsole netconsole=@/,514@192.168.2.100/
> > > dmesg:
> > > netconsole: local port 6665
> > > netconsole: interface eth0
> > > netconsole: remote port 514
> > > netconsole: remote IP 192.168.2.100
> > > netconsole: remote ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > > netconsole: local IP 192.168.2.50
> > > netconsole: network logging started
> > >
> > > (kernel: 2.6.15-rc5, and 2.6.16-rc1,2)
> > >
> > > On the server:
> > > ]# netcat -u -l -v -s 192.168.2.100 -p 514
> > > 192.168.2.100: inverse host lookup failed: Unknown host
> > > listening on [192.168.2.100] 514 ...
> > >
> > > And nothing comes.
> > >
> > > The firewall is off on both system.
> > > The ping comes from any direction.
> > >
> > > If i try the remote and local syslog, it works well, two.
> > > And in this case, the netlog only displays what the syslog is sends.
> > >
> > > What can be the problem?
> >
> > Perhaps your console log level is set too low. Fedora for instance is
> > very quiet by default.
> 
> Sorry, i was not clear enough....
> The system, what i want to debug is RedHat 9.0, with kernel 2.6.15, 2.6.16-*
> The syslog server is Fedora, and the syslog to syslog messages is works, but
> netconsole to syslog (and netconsole to netcat) is the problem, including
> the init-message!
> 
> At this time i try to receive with another redhat 9, but it looks like the
> netconsole did not working properly for me. :(

Netconsole logging level is based off the _console log level_, which
defaults to quiet on recent Redhat releases. If it doesn't show up on
the console, netconsole doesn't see it either.

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