Operating System and Software
Problem
- How to configure
netconsole
under Rocky Linux 8 ?
How to Fix
-
netconsole
is configured via the file /etc/sysconfig/netconsole
, which is part of the netconsole-service
package.
-
This package needs to be installed which provides the
netconsole
service.
# yum install netconsole-service
- Once package is installed set the variable
SYSLOGADDR
to the IP address of the syslogd
server In the /etc/sysconfig/netconsole
file
SYSLOGADDR=192.168.0.1
- Restart the
netconsole.service
for the changes to take effect
# systemctl restart netconsole.service
- Enable
netconsole.service
to run after rebooting the system
# systemctl enable netconsole.service
- The
netconsole
messages from the client logged in the /var/log/messages
file (default) or in the file specified in rsyslog.conf
.