Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:28:17 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: /dev/console -> /var/log/messages idea/patch Message-ID: <3A1CB901.9503129@softweyr.com> References: <1470.974928159@critter> <200011222239.RAA48717@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200011222320.eAMNKDx45514@explorer.rsa.com>
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Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote:
>
> In local.freebsd-current you write:
>
> ><<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....
>
> Do you mean something like this?
Yeah, something like that, except it should restart the named daemon if
it exits for any reason. ;^)
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