linux-kernel - Re: What happens if the klogd dies

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0608021125150.24592@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:28:51 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Sven Anders <s.anders@...itec.de>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What happens if the klogd dies

>Hi,
>I wander what happens it the klog-daemon do not work.

Nothing. Messages just do not get logged.

>Is it posible that, after a amount of time the kernel crash, bescause of that?

Unlikely, because it would require a kernel crash in a place that would 
very likely bring the whole system down (procfs, sockfs).


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