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Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:51:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        jamie@inna.net (Jamie Bowden)
Subject:   Re: Console messages in an xterm
Message-ID:  <199610260751.JAA13290@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961025135638.22853C-100000@tyger.inna.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Oct 25, 96 01:59:20 pm"

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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. ;-)



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