setlogcons(8)

setlogcons8

Send kernel messages to console n

Usage

setlogcons [options] [N]

Overview

The command setlogcons N sets all kernel messages to the console specified as N.

By default kernel messages are sent to the current console.

To change the level of messages sent, use dmesg

Options

-C, --console=DEV

the console device to be used.

-V, --version

print version number.

-h, --help

print this usage message.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.1–10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13–Arch

--console since Debian 13 (Trixie); --help since Debian 13 (Trixie); --version since Debian 13 (Trixie); -C since Debian 13 (Trixie); -V since Debian 13 (Trixie); -h since Debian 13 (Trixie).

Authors

setlogcons was originally written by Andries Brouwer for the kbd package.

This manual page was written by Alastair McKinstry.

From kbd 2.10.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.