From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 11:52:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA14674 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA14666 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA14454 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:52:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id UAA23303; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:24:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:24:08 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial Console References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from spork on Feb 19, 1997 11:55:29 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As spork wrote: > Is there a way to have both the traditional and serial console > simultaneously? No, you can have at most one console device at a time. Note that /dev/console is a logical device, not a phyiscal one. It's very common to redirect it to something else than /dev/ttyv0 or /dev/ttyd0. See the console output on /dev/ttyv1 when sysinstall is running as init, or xconsole. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)