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
