Timo Buhrmester <[email protected]> writes:
> On a 'console server' (hooked up to the (serial) consoles of multiple
> other servers) I'm using script(1) to capture the console outputs; the
> typescript files end up being the console logs.
>
> In order to allow newsyslog to rotate those typescripts, I added an
> option (-P) to script(1) which causes it to write a pidfile.
Have you looked at comms/conserver, comms/conserver8 or
sysutils/rtty from pkgsrc? One of those might do what you want
without involving script(1).
-jarle
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