From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 23 21:28: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (frankenrouter.softweyr.com [204.68.178.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F77C37B4C5 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13yprl-00034b-00; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:28:17 -0700 Message-ID: <3A1CB901.9503129@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:28:17 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikko Tyolajarvi Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: /dev/console -> /var/log/messages idea/patch References: <1470.974928159@critter> <200011222239.RAA48717@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200011222320.eAMNKDx45514@explorer.rsa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote: > > In local.freebsd-current you write: > > >< 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. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message