From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 15 05:08:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA05913 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 05:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from matrix.42.org (sec@matrix.42.org [192.68.213.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA05905 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 05:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA20764; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:07:48 +0200 Message-ID: <19970415140747.48289@matrix.42.org> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:07:47 +0200 From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.1-RELEASE /dev/console References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Main Body X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Jay D. Nelson on Mon, Apr 14, 1997 at 06:40:40PM -0500 I-love-doing-this: really X-URL: http://www.42.org/~sec/ Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Apr 14, 1997 at 06:40:40PM -0500, Jay D. Nelson wrote: > Have you tried editing syslog.conf to route _all messages_ to a file or > another machine? ah, thanks, commenting out the line concerning /dev/console at least solved my problem with syslogd. but, i still dont get it, why does /dev/console block ? is it supposed to do so, and what can I do against it ? still wondering, Sec -- Jeder Tag an dem du nicht lächelst, ist ein verlorener Tag. (C. Chaplin)