Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:14:17 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: "Eitan Shefi" <eitans@mellanox.co.il> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "/var/log/messages" logs appear in the output of "sysctl -a" Message-ID: <20090107131417.609c602d@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <5D49E7A8952DC44FB38C38FA0D758EAD0164F6D6@mtlexch01.mtl.com> References: <5D49E7A8952DC44FB38C38FA0D758EAD0164F6D6@mtlexch01.mtl.com>
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:30:20 +0200 "Eitan Shefi" <eitans@mellanox.co.il> 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.devstat.version: 6 > kern.devstat.generation: 137 > kern.devstat.numdevs: 1 > kern.kobj_methodcount: 143 > kern.log_wakeups_per_second: 5 > kern.msgbuf_clear: 0 > 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] > mtnic0: Initializing MSIX > mtnic0: Enabling MSI-X (11 vectors) > mtnic0: Board ID:MT_0BD0110004 > mtnic0: [ITHREAD] > mtnic0: Activating port:1 > mtnic0: Ethernet address: 00:02:c9:03:35:20 > mtnic0: Activating port:2 > mtnic1: Ethernet address: 00:02:c9:03:35:21 > mtnic0: [ITHREAD] > mtnic0: [ITHREAD] > mtnic0: > mtnic0: > mtnic0: > mtnic0: Port 1 - link up > mtnic0: [ITHREAD] > mtnic0: [ITHREAD] > mtnic0: [ITHREAD] > Limiting icmp ping response from 300 to 200 packets/sec > Limiting icmp ping response from 300 to 200 packets/sec > Limiting icmp ping response from 1497 to 200 packets/sec > Limiting icmp ping response from 1500 to 200 packets/sec > Limiting icmp ping response from 1498 to 200 packets/sec > Limiting icmp ping response from 1500 to 200 packets/sec > > > Any idea how can such logs apear in "sysctl -a" ? > If you were viewing this as root on the console then you were simply seeing kernel output interleaved with the output from sysctl. --- Gary Jennejohn
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