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Date:      Sat, 27 May 2006 22:15:11 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        gnn@freebsd.org
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject:   Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <447931DF.8050408@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <m27j4710ab.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
References:  <16029.1148764704@critter.freebsd.dk> <m27j4710ab.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>

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gnn@freebsd.org wrote:
> At Sat, 27 May 2006 23:18:24 +0200,
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
>>Comments, ideas, suggestions etc welcome
>>
> 
> 
> It makes sense to me.  I know that by default all the stuff I would
> expect on the console will wind up in /var/log/messages but do we want
> to create a /var/log/console that takes the place of console output in
> the last case?

The trouble with /var/log/messages is that you need to have a functionning
disk system and a fully working scheduler etc. for the message to get there.

When everything gumms up you need to still get those last whimpers out.

> 
> Later,
> George
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