From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 00:47:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA26863 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 00:47:30 -0700 Received: from terra.aros.net (angio@terra.aros.net [205.164.111.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA26856 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 00:47:28 -0700 Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA19897 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:47:26 -0600 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199510040747.BAA19897@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: Sending console messages to just 1 virtual console To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:47:25 -0600 (MDT) In-Reply-To: <199510040504.WAA13360@shell1.best.com> from "David Rompel" at Oct 3, 95 10:04:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Lo and behold, David Rompel once said: > How the heck do I make allthe console messages go someplace > like just one of the virtual console windows?? Edit /etc/syslog.conf to direct them to /dev/ttyv2 (the 3rd virtual console) or just to a file. There are various arguments in favor of both methods, of course. :) e.g. *.notice /dev/ttyv2 *.alert /dev/ttyv2 *.emerg /dev/console (shrug) -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual/ "She totally confused all the passing piranhas"