From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 21 16:29:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25080 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:29:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25043; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:28:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA20114; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:58:39 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id KAA03346; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:58:36 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:58:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , John Fieber , Mikael Karpberg , Garrett Wollman , abial@nask.pl, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys bus.h src/sys/kern subr_bus.c Message-ID: <19990122105836.Q417@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:33:51PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thursday, 21 January 1999 at 23:33:51 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: >> Actually, that sucks because `dmesg | grep ^da0` becomes useless. >> >> Why not come up with a dmesg bootup pretty printer that runs after the >> splashscreen? > > While we're at it, I'd *love* to have some way of logging the output > of /etc/rc*, since after a nasty crash fsck messages can easily > overflow the scrollback buffer, not to mention that it gets clobbered > by the splash screen or by a mode switch if you have e.g. VESA_132x60 > in allscreens_flags like me. I'm planning to do this. It involves starting a proto-syslogd and logging all the rc output to it. The daemon keeps the output in virtual memory until the startup has completed, when it gets a kick (signal), turns into a real syslogd, and logs all the output. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message