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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
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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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