Rules Related To 'netconsole'

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Disable Network Console (netconsole)

service_netconsole_disabled

Description

The netconsole service is responsible for loading the netconsole kernel module, which logs kernel printk messages over UDP to a syslog server. This allows debugging of problems where disk logging fails and serial consoles are impractical. The netconsole service can be disabled with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl mask --now netconsole.service

Rationale

The netconsole service is not necessary unless there is a need to debug kernel panics, which is not common.