Further searching resulted in this message:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/03/msg01554.html
of which this snippet is key:
The settings in /etc/sysctl.conf take effect at the next reboot. You can
change the printk setting with immediate effect with
echo "4 1 1 7" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
and you can check the setting with
cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
Only root can change the setting but everyone can read it.
The files in /proc/ are pseudo-files which provide interfaces to kernel
data structures; see "man proc" for details.
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excerpt from
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.20/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt.gz
follows:
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printk:
The four values in printk denote: console_loglevel,
default_message_loglevel, minimum_console_loglevel and
default_console_loglevel respectively.
These values influence printk() behavior when printing or
logging error messages. See 'man 2 syslog' for more info on
the different loglevels.
- console_loglevel: messages with a higher priority than
this will be printed to the console
- default_message_level: messages without an explicit priority
will be printed with this priority
- minimum_console_loglevel: minimum (highest) value to which
console_loglevel can be set
- default_console_loglevel: default value for console_loglevel
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For the numeric values the following from the syslog(2) manpage is
useful:
Every text line in a message has its own loglevel. This level is
DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL - 1 (6) unless the line starts with <d> where
d is a digit in the range 1-7, in which case the level is d. The
conventional meaning of the loglevel is defined in <linux/kernel.h>
as follows:
#define KERN_EMERG "<0>" /* system is unusable */
#define KERN_ALERT "<1>" /* action must be taken immediately */
#define KERN_CRIT "<2>" /* critical conditions */
#define KERN_ERR "<3>" /* error conditions */
#define KERN_WARNING "<4>" /* warning conditions */
#define KERN_NOTICE "<5>" /* normal but significant condition */
#define KERN_INFO "<6>" /* informational */
#define KERN_DEBUG "<7>" /* debug-level messages */
- Nate >>
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