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Syslog

1.0 Syslog Syslog is a protocol for conveying event notification messages. Syslog was first developed by Eric Allman for logging as a part of the Sendmail project in the 1980s. It soon became a de-facto standard for logging on Unix-like systems. Syslog was formally specified in RFC 3164 in 2001 as “The BSD syslog Protocol” …

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System V message queues in Linux

1.0 Message queues Message queues are one of the interprocess communication mechanisms available under Linux. Message queues, shared memory and semaphores are normally listed as the three interprocess communication mechanisms under Linux. Semaphores, though, are really for process synchronization. In practice, shared memory, aided by semaphores, makes an interprocess communication mechanism. Message queues is the …

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kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

A new Linux kernel was built using the commands, make gconfig, make, sudo make install and sudo make modules_install. After building a new Linux kernel and booting from it, the boot process halts with the following message: kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) A lot many drivers are …

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