Re: kernel tells me stuff on tty1 - want it on tty 8 or 10. how?
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 07:20:40PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 18:15:45 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:40:12PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > > Encountered an oddity on a headless machine with etch r3:
> > >
> > > When the system is booted, kernel messages are put on tty1.
> >
> > They actually go to /dev/tty (your "current" console).
> >
> > > Since this is the
> > > terminal I login to after it's booted this is highly annoying since my
> > > screen is garbled when I run scripts and the kernel messages me about...
> > > mounted disks or plugged ethernet cables etc.
> > > I've never seen this with other distros afair, Slackware puts ll its
> > > kernel output on tty8 for example. I'd like to have that here, too.
> > > Can do?
> >
> > setlogcons .
> >
> > You'll have to open(8) that terminal first, I believe.
> >
> > I use in a certian init.d script:
> >
> >
> > CONSOLE=10
> > openvt -c "$CONSOLE" -- /bin/true || true
> > setlogcons "$CONSOLE" || true
> >
>
> What's it with the "true"?
It is part of an init.d script that runs with -e set (exit on error).
IIRC those two lines could have legitimate reasons to fail (Don't
remember exactly why) and I didn't want them to fail the script.
I figure you should remove them.
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