Hi, recently, I wanted to use an Eterm as a substitute for xconsole. Eterm -C lets it listen to /dev/console. On Debian systems, however, /dev/console is linked to /dev/tty0:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999 /dev/console -> tty0 so *Eterm doesn't catch anything*. xconsole, OTOH, displays fine what I'm echoing to /dev/console. To prevent suggestions in the wrong direction: no, I'm not using syslogd for these messages. I just do things like echo "Running exim..." > /dev/console in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ scripts. Both using syslogd or removing this link to /dev/tty0 seem like cowardice to me. Why is this link done anyway? This is Debian specific, AFAIK. How could I fix this cleanly? TIA, Colin PS: My system is plain slink. -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not! [Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
