Re: /dev/console
Hey.. fyi... I thought that I knew what the problem was (below). But I
just had mor eprobs with it, and toyed around with it some more.
What is happening is this: when syslogd is (re)started, it points to
whatever is the current console *at that time*.
The real solution to my problem was to restart syslogd from tty1 (since
that's where I want my syslog console messages directed).
Apologies for replying to my own post, and for not making much sense in my
explanation. ;)
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Nagilum wrote:
> OK, thanks guys, I got it working. Yes I had been restarting syslogd...
> but it was actually my testing methods which were flawed. ;P
>
> I thought that if I echoed something directly to /dev/console it should
> work, but apparently that isn't the case. I had been using "logger" as
> you suggested with the symlink (before making the console device) which
> produced no output, so I didn't bother trying it when I did have the real
> device (5,1).
>
> Using logger with the console device does work. THanks to all for the
> help.
>
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