From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 30 23:21:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24345 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA24338 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA22147; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 08:20:56 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA27652; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 08:20:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA07064; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 07:53:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608310553.HAA07064@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD without console To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 07:53:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: fyeung@netific.com (francis yeung) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608302133.VAA15747@fyeung5.netific.com> from francis yeung at "Aug 30, 96 09:33:52 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As francis yeung wrote: > Is there a way that I can run without > any console port i.e. no VGA or COM1 port and redirect > the console output to a file so that I can login from > another workstation remotely using tail -f "console file". No. The console must exist (if it exists at all) before the root file system is mounted. Anyway, you can configure syslogd(8) so that it writes everything into file(s). See /etc/syslog.conf. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)