From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 24 10:20:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02012 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from baygate.bayarea.net (baygate.bayarea.net [204.71.212.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02007 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mcnab@localhost) by baygate.bayarea.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA21279; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:13:06 -0700 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:13:06 -0700 From: David McNab Message-Id: <199607241713.KAA21279@baygate.bayarea.net> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com CC: hans@brandinnovators.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607241629.LAA14277@brasil.moneng.mei.com> (message from Joe Greco on Wed, 24 Jul 1996 11:29:04 -0500 (CDT)) Subject: Re: catching /etc/rc output Reply-to: David McNab Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk |> Is there a convenient way to direct all output from the /etc/rc scripts |> to both the console and a file other than rewriting them? Scrollback |> is not always sufficient especially after lengthy fsck output. | |Not that I'm aware of :-) | |At one point I had rewritten some of SunOS's startup scripts to redirect all |output to a file, this was sorta useful. One could conceivably "tail -f" |the file to the console to obtain functionality similar to what you ask for. C'mon. Everyone knows that real hackers use a console teletype 8^). (Hmm, let's see... adb /unix... just tweak this one little memory location... chatter chatter chatter... uh oh...) -- Dave McNab