From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 16 09:06:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2EC416A421 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:06:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D451643D49 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:06:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: from aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050916090615.EZUA9239.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:06:15 +0100 Received: from jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawhq.com ([213.106.224.113]) by aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050916090615.IHN6183.aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawhq.com> for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:06:15 +0100 X-Filtered-With-Copfilter: Version 0.1.0beta11 (ProxSMTP 1.2.1) X-Copfilter-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.2/1082 - Wed Sep 14 16:22:17 2005 X-Copfilter: Client is part of our network, skipped SpamAssassin Received: from [192.168.0.181] ([192.168.0.181]) by jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawhq.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:05:15 +0100 Message-ID: <432A8ACB.3080703@ashleymoran.me.uk> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:05:15 +0100 From: Ashley Moran User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Norberto Meijome References: <43298076.7050705@codeweavers.net> <4329921F.2070006@dial.pipex.com> <43299A1B.8050406@ashleymoran.me.uk> <43299CCA.4040509@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <43299CCA.4040509@meijome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Sep 2005 09:05:15.0471 (UTC) FILETIME=[C0A6B5F0:01C5BA9D] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:06:18 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote: > or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the > ttyvs are launched before syslogng Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The handbook is a bit sketchy and only goes into the initial stages. I've tried flirting through the /etc files but it's hard to piece everything together. I will try putting an echo "can you see this" > /dev/ttyv7 in the syslog-ng script. But I'll do it later. I think I've spent enough time on this one little quirk! Ashley