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From: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Subject: [PATCH 14/14] netconsole: s/syslogd/cancd/ in documentation
Date: Thu,  9 May 2013 16:43:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1368132193-25817-17-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368132193-25817-1-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org>

Using syslogd to capture netconsole is known to be broken, see for
example https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432160 or any of the
many other bug reports.  We should not advertise it, much less as a
first choice.  The fact that syslogd tends to initially work makes it
worse, as that creates false hope.

Cancd is a syslog-for-netconsole of sorts and in my experience works
better than any alternative for non-trivial setups, i.e. more than a
single machine sending netconsole traffic.

Since my hacked-up version of cancd is no longer compatible with
Oracle's original, I linked to both.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
---
 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt |   16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
index 2e9e0ae2..c59d2bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
@@ -54,9 +54,7 @@ address.
 The remote host has several options to receive the kernel messages,
 for example:
 
-1) syslogd
-
-2) netcat
+1) netcat
 
    On distributions using a BSD-based netcat version (e.g. Fedora,
    openSUSE and Ubuntu) the listening port must be specified without
@@ -65,10 +63,20 @@ for example:
    'nc -u -l -p <port>' / 'nc -u -l <port>' or
    'netcat -u -l -p <port>' / 'netcat -u -l <port>'
 
-3) socat
+2) socat
 
    'socat udp-recv:<port> -'
 
+3) cancd
+
+   A daemon written specifically for netconsole that is good at capturing
+   output from many machines.  Using netcat for several machines either
+   interleaves output from all machines or requires the use of per-machine
+   ports.
+
+   https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/joern/cancd.git/
+   https://oss.oracle.com/projects/cancd/
+
 Dynamic reconfiguration:
 ========================
 
-- 
1.7.10.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-09 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-09 20:42 [PATCH 00/14] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 3) Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:42 ` [PATCH 01/14] do_mounts: constify name_to_dev_t parameter Joern Engel
2013-05-22 20:48   ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-22 19:58     ` Jörn Engel
2013-05-09 20:42 ` [PATCH] mpt2sas/mpt3sas: prevent double free on error path Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:45   ` Jörn Engel
2013-05-22 20:48   ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-22 19:52     ` Jörn Engel
2013-05-09 20:42 ` [PATCH] mpt2sas: " Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 02/14] add blockconsole version 1.1 Joern Engel
2013-05-22 20:48   ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-22 21:04     ` Jörn Engel
2013-05-22 22:43       ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-22 21:34         ` Jörn Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 03/14] printk: add CON_ALLDATA console flag Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 04/14] netconsole: use CON_ALLDATA Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 05/14] blockconsole: " Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 06/14] bcon: add a release work struct Joern Engel
2013-05-22 20:48   ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 07/14] bcon: check for hdparm in bcon_tail Joern Engel
2013-05-22 20:48   ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 08/14] blockconsole: Allow to pass a device file path to bcon_tail Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 09/14] bcon: remove version 1.0 support Joern Engel
2013-05-22 20:48   ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-22 19:51     ` Jörn Engel
2013-05-22 21:25       ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-22 20:00         ` Jörn Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 10/14] blockconsole: Fix undefined MAX_RT_PRIO Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 11/14] blockconsole: Rename device_lock with bc_device_lock Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 12/14] blockconsole: Mark a local work struct static Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 13/14] bcon: Fix wrap-around behaviour Joern Engel
2013-05-09 20:43 ` Joern Engel [this message]
2013-05-09 20:43 ` [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2) Joern Engel

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