[systemd-devel] journald and kernel logging

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Tomasz Sobczyk <dottomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is the fact that journald reads the kernel log, but doesn't prevent
> the messages from outputting to the active terminal a bug or desired
> behaviour?
>
> # echo "Test" > /dev/kmsg
> Test
> #
>
> If I, let's say, connect a USB device then the active terminal is
> spammed with the kernel log messages. I can prevent this by starting a
> system logger, but with journald running I shouldn't need another one,
> right?

It's not really the journal's task to fiddle with the log level of the
kernel console output.

Use "quiet" on the kernel command line?

Kay