Signed-off-by: Joerg Seitter adk@seitter.net --- docs/customize-rootfs.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/customize-rootfs.txt b/docs/customize-rootfs.txt index 54846dba5..3d4f0bf7b 100644 --- a/docs/customize-rootfs.txt +++ b/docs/customize-rootfs.txt @@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ loss of customized configuration data. Another option is to configure a post-build action. This is available in +Global settings+. It must point to a script relative to the root of your openadk working copy. It will be invoked as part of the -+*-imageinstall+ step with $ADK_TOPDIR as first argument. You can use ++-imageinstall+ step with $ADK_TOPDIR as first argument. You can use it e.g. to modify the +root_*+ filesystem before bundling it.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Seitter adk@seitter.net --- docs/running-openadk.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/running-openadk.txt b/docs/running-openadk.txt index dcfd7451d..d9fde48af 100644 --- a/docs/running-openadk.txt +++ b/docs/running-openadk.txt @@ -184,3 +184,24 @@ You can change the shell in +make menuconfig+ under +Runtime configuration+. Be aware of the fact that the bootup process might use some +mksh+ features to speedup the system start. When you change the shell for system +/bin/sh+ the slower startup is used as a fallback. + +analyzing logs +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Since embedded systems usually avoid writing continously on non-volatile storage +(to avoid waer-out of the storage device) there are no logfiles under /var/log and +/var itself is mapped onto a RAM based filesystem. + +Instead the syslog daemon logs into a ciruclar memory +buffer. The size of the memory buffer is by default 32KiB and can be changed in the +busybox configuration. + +To access the content of the buffer the +logread+ utility is used to dump the buffer. +To get a continous output of the logbuffer -f has to be added as option. + +--------------------- +Usage: logread [-fF] + +-f Output data as log grows +-F Same as -f, but dump buffer first +---------------------
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