From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 26 00:52:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06122 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:52:37 -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 AAA06105 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:52:25 -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 JAA12272; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:52:10 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02661; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:52:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id JAA13290; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:51:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610260751.JAA13290@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Console messages in an xterm To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:51:01 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jamie@inna.net (Jamie Bowden) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Jamie Bowden at "Oct 25, 96 01:59:20 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 Jamie Bowden wrote: > How about for getting the console window in X to actually act like a > console? On sun and sgi boxes, the -C option causes all output to what > would be the equiv ttyv0 to show in that window. Doesn't work in fbsd. It works, but not as you expect it. /dev/ttyv0 != /dev/console The xconsole gets all output that goes to /dev/console (including printf output from daemons). -- 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. ;-)