I have noticed this problem both on Sparcs and RS-6000. I have found
it more serious on Sparcs. If you unplug the serial connected
console to a Sparc, it will wedge immediately and it has to be
power cycled where the RS-6000 will simply block the process
which tries to write to console.
I had an instance where I installed an RS-6000 several times
and when I rebooted it the console was inoperative and it was
found later that it was all caused by a faulty cable. Everything
during installation was going well, since it is done in
maintenance mode. I lost an evening to this absolutely
silly situation.
If anybody has a solution to this problem, I'm very interested in
it.
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>>AIX apparently ignores DTR until it goes multiuser, so it looked as
>>though the console was working. However, every process which tried to
>>write to the console (including the AFS "fileserver" process) blocked
>>quite thoroughly when it couldn't write to the console!
>>
>>Perhaps there is a software solution. If so, I would use both.
>>
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>I work on suns and don't have access to any IBM's, so I'm not sure if
>syslog is even available under AIX, but writing to /dev/console is a
>poor approach to logging. Syslog is the better answer, since those messages
>can be saved to files in addition to routing them to a central or multiple
>loghosts. One of my main complaints is what if you get more than 24 lines
>of messages to your console? You lose some of your messages since they
>scroll off the top of the screen.
>
>I've talked to Lyle about this, and filed an RFE but haven't heard any
>word. To be honest, I don't know if logging to syslog rather than writing
>directly to /dev/console would solve the problem you described above, but
>I still believe Transarc needs to make a change to their logging scheme.
>
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