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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:23:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Wemm <peter>
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Subject: Re: bin/2176
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Synopsis: syslogd won't log to /dev/ttyv* devices

State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed
State-Changed-By: peter
State-Changed-When: Sun Dec 8 19:13:02 PST 1996
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I think this is actually a syscons problem, not a syslogd one.

There is a known problem recently introduced into syscons that would
explain this.  Please try turning a getty on the virtual console that you
wish to log to, that should make it the data show up without having to
change syslogd.

The syscons problems are described in detail by Bruce Evans in a reply
to PR2118 called "failure to write output to vc without input".