Re: FIXED: dbootstrap problem + why is init_tab obsolete, and what obsoletes it?
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 03:22:50PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Wed Jan 12, 2000 at 03:39:59PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:15:20PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > First off, I was able to fix the dbootstrap problem. It seems that
> > > starting rcS and dbootstrap on the console causes a problem of sorts
> > > (control of the terminal is not handed over properly). There is probably a
> > > better "fix", but basically I just moved rcS output to tty3. I also moved
> > > some things from rcS to inittab (syslogd startup, cat /proc/kmsg, and tail
> > > -f /var/log/messages), which seems to work pretty well.
> >
> > Yeah, we'll need something else to handle serial console systems that have
> > all messages output on /dev/ttyS0.
>
> dbootstrap will still run on whatever /dev/console resolves as, and
> at least system messages will show up in /var/log/messages, so serial
> console systems will see at least those messages if they choose to look.
> The output from rcS will generally not be very critical.
>
> On a related note, we probably should just let syslogd start klogd, so
> both system and kernel messages will be logged to /var/log/messages.
> With the current scheme, folks on serial consoles won't have access to
> kernel message logs...
Good idea, I actually wondered why this wasn't already done. I'll make the
change.
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