Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 03:48:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Lewis <nepolon@systray.com> To: Stephen Hansen <stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com> Cc: rshea@opendoor.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: console vs ttyv0? (was: Suppressing SENDMAIL messages) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008180342370.6692-100000@greg.ad9.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008172309390.1169-100000@Jeremy.cerebralmaelstrom.com>
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Stephen Hansen wrote: > If you go into /etc/syslog.conf and change each occurance of 'root' > to /dev/ttyv0, all the messages will only be displayed on the first > virtual terminal. i'm not sure if there's a difference between > /dev/ttv0 or /dev/console, which the first line sends stuff to, so > left it alone. IIRC /dev/console is only when you are in single-user mode, otherwise you are sitting on a virtual terminal (ttyv#) (see also /etc/ttys). I don't often see syslog running when a system is in single-user mode so I don't know that this makes much sense, but it is possible. Unfortunately I am not sitting at a FreeBSD box I can bring into single user mode and test this theory of mine. Perhaps we can get someone wiser in the ways of terms to pipe in. --Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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