> The reason that you cannot use Ctrl-C in Solaris 10
> is that SMF runs legacy
> services without a control terminal.  Any output that
> was sent to the
> console in pre-SMF days is now captured in the
> appropriate milestone log
> file in /var/svc/log.

I'm supposing that it's all services and not just legacy, yes?

> The reason that SMF does this is so that it can do as
> many things in
> parallel as possible.  Storing service output in the
> appropriate log file
> makes it easier to diagnose failures and avoids a
> jumble of messages on the
> console.  Starting services in parallel allows for
> faster boots.

Obviously the console login is able to allocate the terminal for its use.  
Would it be possible to create a wrapper that could allocate and hand off the 
terminal to a script?  

-- 
Darren
 
 
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