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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


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