From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 3:29:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from greg.ad9.com (greg.ad9.com [209.233.225.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D47137B422 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 03:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greg.ad9.com (nepolon@greg.ad9.com [209.233.225.5]) by greg.ad9.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA06790; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 03:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 03:48:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Lewis X-Sender: nepolon@greg.ad9.com To: Stephen Hansen Cc: rshea@opendoor.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: console vs ttyv0? (was: Suppressing SENDMAIL messages) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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