Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:53:58 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent motd including os info Message-ID: <37DC7556.82A77322@gorean.org> References: <199909130217.TAA31971@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > It dawned on me what can be done. Look, we get all the kernel printf's > from the dmesg output saved in a buffer and pull that out later with > syslog, looks like we could just slip a pipe fitting into /dev/console > that copies all it's output into the mesgbuf as well, until we smack it > wth the ballpean and tell it to stop doing that (Either getty lanching the > login: on ttyv0 could cause this, or something at the end of /etc/rc). > > What do you think of that idea? I think that's a fine idea, and it's a lot cleaner than mine for a number of reasons. Completely beyond me to code, but very nice from the design standpoint. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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