Alok Aggarwal wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Dave Miner wrote:
> 
>> Alok Aggarwal wrote:
>>> The current AI design is ambiguous when it comes
>>> to whether console-login should run during an
>>> automated install.
>>>
>>> Currently, console-login does run and the auto-installer
>>> service runs in the background. Should this be changed
>>> and what should it be changed to?
>>>
>>> One of the things that the auto-installer service does
>>> is to run the automated install program (/usr/bin/auto-install).
>>> Once the install finishes, a message saying that the install
>>> completed is sent to stderr informing the user of the
>>> outcome of the install. Since the installer is run from
>>> an smf service, the user never sees these messages or
>>> any progress report of the install for that matter.
>>>
>>> This is clearly very user unfriendly.
>>>
>>> Would it be better to disable console-login entirely and have the install 
>>> progress report, etc go to the console
>>> instead?
>>>
>> No, I was quite insistent that this approach not be taken during design.
>>
>> It would be reasonable to send a message to the console upon completion or 
>> failure.
> 
> Okay.
> 
> Another question - if a utility is being run from an
> smf service, how do I force a set of it's messages to
> get emitted on the system console rather than the
> smf log?
> 

Redirect to /dev/msglog.

Dave


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