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Diffstat (limited to 'sysklogd/Config.src')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysklogd/Config.src | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysklogd/Config.src b/sysklogd/Config.src index 41c0d286b..1e5987275 100644 --- a/sysklogd/Config.src +++ b/sysklogd/Config.src @@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ config FEATURE_LOGREAD_REDUCED_LOCKING config KLOGD bool "klogd" default y - depends on PLATFORM_LINUX help klogd is a utility which intercepts and logs all messages from the Linux kernel and sends the messages @@ -117,6 +116,22 @@ config KLOGD you wish to record the messages produced by the kernel, you should enable this option. +config FEATURE_KLOGD_KLOGCTL + bool "Use the klogctl() interface" + default y + depends on KLOGD && PLATFORM_LINUX + help + The klogd applet supports two interfaces for reading + kernel messages. Linux provides the klogctl() interface + which allows reading messages from the kernel ring buffer + independently from the file system. + + If you answer 'N' here, klogd will use the more portable + approach of reading them from /proc or a device node. + However, this method requires the file to be available. + + If in doubt, say 'Y'. + config LOGGER bool "logger" default y |