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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-08-27 14:13:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-08-27 14:13:33 (GMT) |
| commit | e372dc6c62bf0246a07f3291a26c562cc8659fbd (patch) | |
| tree | c7039c1d1005b80e427761ba768d7697ae4a0b72 /Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | |
| parent | 5d4121c04b3577e37e389b3553d442f44bb346d7 (diff) | |
| parent | fea7a08acb13524b47711625eebea40a0ede69a0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fsl-qoriq-e372dc6c62bf0246a07f3291a26c562cc8659fbd.tar.xz | |
Merge 3.6-rc3 into tty-next
This picks up all of the different fixes in Linus's tree that we also need here.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt index 8d02207..2e9e0ae2 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: ======================== |