From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 22:35:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bootes.ebtech.net (bootes.ebtech.net [206.152.142.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C16214C38 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 22:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@geeky1.ebtech.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bootes.ebtech.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with UUCP id AAA20808 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 May 1999 00:55:49 -0400 Received: from localhost (paul@localhost) by geeky1.ebtech.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id BAA07983 for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 01:02:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 01:02:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Anderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Syslog log to a virtual tty? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, but I have extensive experience with Linux. On my Linux boxen, I put the following in my /etc/syslog.conf: *.* /dev/tty8 To pump all the log messages to the 8 virtual terminal - I find it very handy for viewing the logs as they go by, and seeing if there are any problems. So, under FreeBSD I tried: *.* /dev/ttyv7 I have, of course, created the requisite device file using the /dev/MAKEDEV script, and syslogd does open the terminal, I can change to it. The problem I'm having is that none of the log messages are sent to the requisite terminal. Any thoughts? TIA. --- Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac paul@geeky1.ebtech.net Member of the Sarnia Linux User's Group http://www.sar-net.com/slug http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul "Zathras have bad life, zathras probably have bad death, too, but at least is symmetry!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message