On 05/04/07, Riny Qian <Riny.Qian at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On 05/04/07, LingBo Tang <Lingbo.Tang at sun.com> wrote: > > > >> > Another nice feature I've seen on Linux, is the ability to configure > >> > it to display syslog output on one of the virtual consoles. > >> > Will it be possible to do something like this with Solaris? > >> > >> If you can describe more details in this function as you expect, > >> we may think about it. Thanks! > > > > > > I can field this question I think. > > > > Many Linux distributions allow you to redirect the system messages you > > normally get spammed with (such as unknown hsot name "loghost", etc.) > > to a specific console. That way you can essentially "watch" what goes > > into /var/log/messages on a Linux box on a specific virtual console > > instead of having that output (rather inconveniently) go to the same > > console as the one you are using (causing your vi session to be > > annoyingly interrupted as an example). > > > > On Solaris, by default, the syslog info will always go to the system > console (/dev/console, also namded as "the first virtual console"), > thus there'll be no the problem you mentioned above. > > Of course, you can configure it to go onto any other of the virtual > consoles. Please see syslogd(1M).
That sounds like the same thing they're asking for then. Thanks. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
