From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I've just installed RedHat 7.1 (actually, same problem I have in RedHat 6.1, kernel 2.2.15). Now my text console fills by error messages from kernel. Very interesting is that my /etc/syslog.conf file has following settings: kern.* /var/log/kernel *.* /dev/tty12 And I have kernel messages in both locations + on my current text console (tty1-tty6). I will explain my settings below. My Novell Linux-client works well except messages on the screen. Here is full text of the message: IPX: Network number collision fff8 eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Honestly, this problem has 2 sides (error in configuration of some client in the network and error in syslog daemon or just IPX-part of kernel) Here is my settings: 1. /etc/sysconfig/network (regarding IPX) IPX="yes" IPXAUTOPRIMARY="on" IPXAUTOFRAME="on" IPXINTERNALNETNUM="1" IPXINTERNALNODENUM="0" 2. /proc/ipx 0000FFF8:4002 0000FFF1:0000001:0451 0 0 01 0 0000FFF8:4003 Not_Connected 0 0 07 0 0000FFF8:4004 Not_Connected 0 0 07 0 3. /proc/ipx_route 0000FFF1 0000FFF8 006094259940 0000FFF8 Directly Connected 4. /proc/ipx_interface 0000FFF8 006097933FFF Yes eth0 802.3 00000000 006097933FFF No eth0 802.2 Second row of the file appears some time later after /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart And at same time I start to receive error messages on my screen. 5. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (IPX part only) IPXNETNUM_802_2="" IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no" IPXACTIVE_802_2="no" IPXNETNUM_802_3="" IPXPRIMARY_802_3="yes" IPXACTIVE_802_3="no" 6. /etc/syslog.conf #kern.* /dev/console kern.* /var/log/kernel *.* /dev/tty12 Actual Results: Error message appears on my text screen Expected Results: Syslog should redirect any kernel messages to /var/log/kernel and to tty12. Actually, it does. But bonus is my current text console. Additional info:
You can determine the level of errors that are sent to the console. The IPX code sees a network number collision as very serious and logs it at level "4". You can select the level of things that get to the console by echo <level> > /proc/sys/kernel/printk where <level> is a number between 1 and 9