From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 15 07:31:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA12622 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tok.qiv.com ([204.214.141.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA12615 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA01516; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:30:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA00314; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:38:38 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:38:38 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: Stefan `Sec` Zehl cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.1-RELEASE /dev/console In-Reply-To: <19970415140747.48289@matrix.42.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id HAA12618 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: ->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 ? Don't know if it is intended or not, but a daemon trying to talk to a device that never answers isn't a good idea. The headless machines I have all log to files with *.crit and above mailed to another machine. -- Jay ->still wondering, -> Sec ->-- -> Jeder Tag an dem du nicht lächelst, ist ein verlorener Tag. (C. Chaplin) ->