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Subject: Re: fsck_ufs after every reboot
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> I do have one question (and it's a general one): I assume without serial
> console (I'm excluding firewire because that's not an option here) or
> taking photos of the monitor, there's no way to effectively log all
> output from db> to disk for review/access later?  (The obvious answer
> here is "yes that's correct", being as the kernel itself is more or less
> suspended at that point, but I thought I'd ask)
>
>   
maybe textdump(4)?