From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 9:24:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kendra.ne.mediaone.net (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.23.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CDA37B417 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:24:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena (xena.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.148]) by kendra.ne.mediaone.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5963F15554 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:24:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <008001c1769f$2497f2a0$94cba8c0@xena> From: "Drew Derbyshire" To: Subject: console data intermixed with kernel output Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:24:02 -0500 Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why is the daily security kernel output configured to include the /dev/console output, which is basically a duplicate of the kernel output? If anything like log in vain is enabled, it makes the output twice as long and three times as hard to read. -ahd- -- Internet: ahd+xena@kew.com Voice: 781-279-9812 Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message