On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:30:20PM +0200, Eitan Shefi wrote: > I am testing a NIC driver. > I found it's logs and "/var/log/messages" logs in the output of "sysctl > -a": > I run "sysctl -a | less", and there I find: > [..] > kern.msgbuf: ound file system checks in 60 seconds. > <118> > mtnic0: FW version:2.6.0 > mtnic0: Board ID: > mtnic0: Using 1 tx rings for port:1 [4096] > mtnic0: Using 4 rx rings for port:1 [1024] > mtnic0: Using 1 tx rings for port:2 [4096] > mtnic0: Using 4 rx rings for port:2 [1024] [..] > > Any idea how can such logs apear in "sysctl -a" ? >
kern.msgbuf dumps so called 'message buf' containing messages printed by the kernel (for example by a NIC driver). It's accessible also via /dev/klog and syslogd uses it as a source for /var/log/messages. -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik at gmail.com> _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"