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Re: /dev/alert ? (was: Re: SYN floods)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Titz)
Wed Aug 28 13:47:09 1996
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From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
Date: 28 Aug 1996 14:38:06 +0200
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Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@inka.de> wrote:
> Well, I expect a lot of messages which needs to be analyced automatically.
> Therefore it would need to be implemeted into klogd binary. Would be a
> option if we can agree on a common syntax for those parseable messages.
That should definitely be preferred over kludging up Yet Another Interface.
Either put it in printk, or put it in the kerneld message queue.
The latter has the advantage that more than one kerneld can listen on
it for specific message types. That would be the most elegant
interface, IMHO.
olaf
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