From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 31 21:57:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AFF15385 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 21:57:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00440; Mon, 31 May 1999 21:57:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:57:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Paul Anderson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syslog log to a virtual tty? In-Reply-To: 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 On Sat, 29 May 1999, Paul Anderson wrote: > 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. Wouldn't it be easier to just NOT use ttyv0? You can take this one step further and turn thye getty off on that vty if you won't want people mucking with it. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message