Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:44:12 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: /dev/console -> /var/log/messages idea/patch Message-ID: <2210.974933052@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:39:34 EST." <200011222239.RAA48717@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In message <200011222239.RAA48717@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: ><<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 don't know what you consider "the real console", but opening "/dev/console" and barfing on it works all the time. (Well, *almost* all the time, not if you have foobar'ed your serial console but...) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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