From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 22 14:44:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7DC37B479 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:44:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAMMiCa02212; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:44:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: /dev/console -> /var/log/messages idea/patch In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:39:34 EST." <200011222239.RAA48717@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:44:12 +0100 Message-ID: <2210.974933052@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200011222239.RAA48717@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: >< 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