Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:58:14 -0400 From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20060530135814.A70588@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <16029.1148764704@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@phk.freebsd.dk on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 11:18:24PM %2B0200 References: <16029.1148764704@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp [phk@phk.freebsd.dk] wrote: > I would like to redefine the semantics of "/dev/console" as follows: > > if any console-consumers like xconsole(8) are active > send output to all console-consumers. > else if a controlling terminal is available > send output to controlling terminal (that is /dev/tty) > else > send output to syslogd, as if generated by printf(9). > (but do not actually output to low-level console) If there is nobody logged in, where do kernel messages from device drivers, and panic messages (with helpful things like KDB_TRACE) wind up? I hope the answer is not "nowhere". I have debugged many problems after they happened by looking at serial console logs, and I would hate to loose this. Drew
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