On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: > There is an alternative to mingetty, named bootshell, by Mike Kershaw of > Marist College. It was intended for use on Linux/390 systems running on VM, > but there's no reason why it couldn't be used in an LPAR. I know on my VM > systems where I use it, I still get some console messages. > > The only problem is, the machine where the source for bootshell lives is no > longer serving up web pages. I've asked Mike for a new pointer, but haven't > gotten an answer yet. > > There is no analog to virtual consoles in Linux/390.
I suppose that, if running under VM, you could write your messages to an emulated device and have VM manage access to them. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: mingetty and console output > > > Hi > > I have an init script that writes output to the console (I've ruled out > redirecting its output to a file or to network syslog for various reasons) > > The trouble is that as soon as mingetty starts, I can no longer see the > output of that script. > > I currently decided to disable the mingetty on the console and hope that > the machine in question will be available through telnet/rsh/ssh . > > Any better ideas? (BTW: is there anything like virtual consoles)? > > Distro: SuSE SLES 7. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
