Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:12:22 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: /dev/console -> /var/log/messages idea/patch Message-ID: <20001122151221.A29341@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1050.974925641@critter>; from "Poul-Henning Kamp" on Wed Nov 22 21:40:41 GMT 2000 References: <1050.974925641@critter>
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In the last episode (Nov 22), Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> The attached patch is a "proof-of-concept" on which I would like to
> get some comments:
>
> It bugs me big time that the output from /etc/rc and all other output
> to /dev/console is volatile and lost once it scrolls of your console.
SCO logs its startup by simply piping the output of its rc scripts
through "2>&1 | tee -a /usr/adm/rc#.log". We could do something
similar by wrapping everything after the "mount -a -t nonfs" command on
like 174 with
{
} 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/boot.log
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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