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<<On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:22:39 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said:

> Another particular thing I remember was that some syslog-challenged 
> daemons whine on /dev/console long after /etc/rc has finished.

They can try, but by the time they do the console has already been
revoke()d, so they no longer have access to the real console.

I've thought about writing daemon(8) which will put these turkeys in
their place.  Just a Small Matter of Programming....

-GAWollman



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