Watching bootup messages

[Scott Ehrlich]

> 
> > An undocumented (at least in the HOWTOs, but documented supposedly in the 
> > code, and pointed out by Linus when we spoke at MIT) was the ability to 
> > get special info via CNTL-Printscreen, ALT-Printscreen, and 
> > Shift-Printscreen.   (At least I think it was the Printscreen key he used).
> > 
> > This worked fine on the Alpha demo'd at his talk, but only shows up in the 
> > /var/adm/messages file on my 386.
> > 
> > Is there any way to get this info redirected to 'normal' output? (i.e. 
> > /dev/console)?
> 
> Messages like this have a priority number.  Low priority messages on your
> system only go into logfiles.  Check klogd/syslogd, you can change the
> cutoff point for /dev/console priority, or maybe just kill some daemons :)
> 

Thanks.  This is progress for me.

Next, I see both when doing a 'ps aux', but how do I know what priority 
they are running at?  Also, what might be generally a good priority range 
for console messages (such as what I want to do)?

I tried a man -k on priority, which did come up with nice and renice, 
along with set and getpriority.  Doing a man on these showed them as used 
in C.  I assume there is an easier way to check the priority of a process 
though a simple command.

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