*- On 26 Sep, Salman Ahmed wrote about "shutting down X" > > I use WDM (WINGs Display Manager) instead of xdm to manage > X on my slink box. I have noticed this weird thing when > shutting down or rebooting my system. > > After I enter shutdown/poweroff/reboot, the X server is > terminated but then I am 'dumped' back to the first virtual > console (tty1). I don't see any of the messages like : > > shutting down XXX > shutting down YYY > shutting down ZZZ > sending HUP siganl to all processes > sending KILL signal to all processes > > However, if I immediately press Ctrl+Alt+F7 right after > getting dumped to the first VC, I do see these messages. > > My question is : why is this not happening be default so > that whenever I shutdown/poweroff/reboot the system I should > see these termination messages ?? > > Is this syslog configuration issue or a WDM configuration > issue ? > > I was used seeing this output from RedHat when it shutdown > and it didn't require any configuration tweaking. > > Thanks for any help. >
Look in your /etc/syslog.conf for output to a different tty. I used to use one of the following and had similiar results, I have since commented them out. #daemon,mail.*;\ # news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8 #daemon.*;mail.*;\ # news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/console /dev/console is the currently active console. See 'man console' and 'man syslog.conf' for more info. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
