Hey.. fyi... I thought that I knew what the problem was (below). But I just had mor eprobs with it, and toyed around with it some more.
What is happening is this: when syslogd is (re)started, it points to whatever is the current console *at that time*. The real solution to my problem was to restart syslogd from tty1 (since that's where I want my syslog console messages directed). Apologies for replying to my own post, and for not making much sense in my explanation. ;) On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Nagilum wrote: > OK, thanks guys, I got it working. Yes I had been restarting syslogd... > but it was actually my testing methods which were flawed. ;P > > I thought that if I echoed something directly to /dev/console it should > work, but apparently that isn't the case. I had been using "logger" as > you suggested with the symlink (before making the console device) which > produced no output, so I didn't bother trying it when I did have the real > device (5,1). > > Using logger with the console device does work. THanks to all for the > help. >
