*- On 26 Sep, Salman Ahmed wrote about "Re: shutting down X"
>
> here is the relevant section from my /etc/syslog.conf before I
> started modifying it:
>
> ----begin----
> #
> # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
> # console I usually leave idle.
> #
> #daemon,mail.*;\
> # news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
> # *.=debug;*.=info;\
> # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8
>
>
> # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it,
> # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
> #
> # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
> #
> # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
> # busy site..
> #
> daemon.*;mail.*;\
> news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
> *.=debug;*.=info;\
> *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
> -----end-----
>
>
> I tried uncommenting the first block (the one that sends output to
> /dev/tty8) but when I shutdown the system I was still dumped back
> to tty1/VC#1. I still had to press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to see the output
> that I wanted.
>
You should always get dumped back to tty1 because that is the terminal
on which wdm was started.
> Commenting out the second block (the one that sends output to
> /dev/xconsole) simply gave me an empty xconsole window as expected.
> It still didn't help me to see the status of shutdown (ie services
> being shutdown) without pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7.
>
> Any other suggestions ?
>
Did you force syslogd to reload the syslog.conf file after you modified
it? '/etc/init.d/syslogd reload' will force it to reload the file.
Wait....I just noticed that my /dev/console is symlinked to /dev/tty1.
This is the old 2.0.x kernel method. The newer kernels use a true
device file for /dev/console. Check /dev/console to see what it is. If
it is a true device then perhaps it is getting stuck on the last active
terminal, was X running on vt7? Try removing /dev/console and making it
a symlink to /dev/tty1. (Disclaimer: I don't know the future
ramifications of this setup, I think I will keep mine this way though.)
> What does your /etc/syslog.conf file look like ?
>
[This is stripped of all comments]
auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
daemon.* /var/log/daemon.log
kern.* /var/log/kern.log
lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log
mail.* /var/log/mail.log
user.* -/var/log/user.log
uucp.* -/var/log/uucp.log
mail.info -/var/log/mail.info
mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err /var/log/mail.err
news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
news.err /var/log/news/news.err
news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice
*.=debug;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug
*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
cron,daemon.none;\
mail,news.none /var/log/messages
*.emerg *
daemon.*;mail.*;\
news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
*.=debug;*.=info;\
*.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
local2.* -/var/log/ppp.log
At this point I am out of ideas.
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Brian
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