We are also redirecting the console to a file /tmp/console on all our
servers. Once per night, we do something like
mv /tmp/console /tmp/console.old
swcons /tmp/console
mail -s console root < /tmp/console.old
rm /tmp/console.old
to truncate the file. This has always been working fine with both AFS
and srcmaster. While AFS servers insist on having a console device, I
think they never write anything useful to it.
To get a login prompt on our tty port, we explicitly enable login via
smit. In this case, it does not matter for the server whether the tty
terminal is connected and turned on or not.
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