Re: dbootstrap now working, busybox needs serial con change.
On Fri Nov 12, 1999 at 12:18:12AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:08:21PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Agreed it is messy, but it would work... I'm open to other suggestions.
> > We could use screen (but it is 212k -- far too big). I suppose that
> > we could just send logging stuff to /dev/null when folks use a serial
> > console.
>
> Why not redirect errors to a file when folks use a serial console?
>
> [And of course serial console folks need to be able to get a shell
> somehow..]
Something like:
log=fopen("/var/log/messages", "a");
if (log==NULL)
log="/dev/null";
?
I can't think of a good way for init to handle the shell issue other
than ctrl-Z (which will probably hose the console since dbootstrap is
doing slang stuff. Other than that (or a nice sig handler) there will
need to be a dbootstrap method for that...
-Erik
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