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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:12:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        "Brian Mitchell (ISSATL)" <bmitchel@iss.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Let a daemon process print a message
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990913160828.9633A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990913135151.367F-100000@egon.iss.net>

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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Brian Mitchell (ISSATL) wrote:

> syslog() with the proper facility is probably the best way to do this.
> Another possibility is opening /dev/console, but I think that will aquire
> a controlling terminal.
> 
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me how to let a daemon process print a message to the
> > console?  Adding printf() does not work (I wonder if a daemon process
> > has been cut of relationship with stdout).  Thanks for any help.
> > 

I have tested syslog().  I find out:  (1) The log messages will go into
/var/log/messages and appear on the console only after I login in (as
root).  (2) The LOG_INFO priority does not cause the messages to appear on
the console or to be written into file /var/log/messages. 

Can anyone explain the reason for me?  Thanks a lot.

-Zhihui



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