From 75b00704a85e1575a033246122292bb6a3044037 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:40 +0000
Subject: add loglevel.c, document LOGLEVEL setting

---
 initscripts.spec |  1 +
 src/loglevel.c   | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 sysconfig.txt    |  6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 src/loglevel.c

diff --git a/initscripts.spec b/initscripts.spec
index ea2ac97a..45e8c47e 100644
--- a/initscripts.spec
+++ b/initscripts.spec
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %attr(4755,root,root) /usr/sbin/usernetctl
 /sbin/netreport
 /sbin/initlog
+/sbin/loglevel
 /sbin/minilogd
 /usr/man/man1/doexec.1
 /usr/man/man1/initlog.1
diff --git a/src/loglevel.c b/src/loglevel.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..04de2e46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/loglevel.c
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+
+/* Change the default console loglevel */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <linux/unistd.h>
+
+_syscall3(int,syslog,int,type,char *,bufp,int,len);
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+   int level;
+
+   if (!argv[1]) exit(0);
+   level=atoi(argv[1]);
+   if ( (level<1) || (level>8) ) {
+      fprintf(stderr,"invalid log level %d\n",level);
+      exit(-1);
+   }
+   if (!syslog(8,NULL,level)) {
+      exit(0);
+   } else {
+      perror("syslog");
+      exit(-1);
+   }
+}
diff --git a/sysconfig.txt b/sysconfig.txt
index b385eefa..f5c79adb 100644
--- a/sysconfig.txt
+++ b/sysconfig.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig
   BOOTUP=<some bootup mode>
      BOOTUP=color means new (as of RH6.0) boot display. Anything
      else means old-style display
-
+  LOGLEVEL=<a number>
+     Sets the initial console logging level for the kernel.
+     The default is 7. 8 means everything (including debugging);
+     1 means nothing except kernel panics. syslogd will override
+     this once it starts.
 
 /etc/sysconfig/keyboard:
 
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