Re: msyslog crazy screen output

[Adam McDaniel <adamm@psynch.com>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:48:58PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote:
> Sep 12 14:46:10 cy599856-a fetchmail[3374]: reading message 1 of 2
> (2721 octets)
>                                                                                    Sep 12 14:46:10 cy599856-a fetchmail[3374]:
> flushed
>         Sep 12 14:46:10 cy599856-a fetchmail[3374]: reading message 2
> 	of 2 (2784 octets)
>                                                                                          Sep 12 14:46:10 cy599856-a fetchmail[3374]:  flushed

I had this same problem except I was running the command

# tail -vf /var/log/messages > /dev/ttyp2

which worked for the most part, except the line feeds/carrage returns
got screwed. To fix that problem I removed the getty program from ttyp2
and just let it sit idle by itself.

I would just say to edit /etc/inittab and stop the getty prog where its on
that tty port. If there is none, try this out. Stop a getty on say, tty4, 
reboot (to make sure the term is clear of any emulation) and pipe your
output to p4... 

guess and test :)

-- 
Adam McDaniel
Infrastructure Technology Consultant
M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.