On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:40:12PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Encountered an oddity on a headless machine with etch r3: > > When the system is booted, kernel messages are put on tty1.
They actually go to /dev/tty (your "current" console). > Since this is the > terminal I login to after it's booted this is highly annoying since my screen > is garbled when I run scripts and the kernel messages me about... mounted > disks or plugged ethernet cables etc. > I've never seen this with other distros afair, Slackware puts ll its kernel > output on tty8 for example. I'd like to have that here, too. > Can do? setlogcons . You'll have to open(8) that terminal first, I believe. I use in a certian init.d script: CONSOLE=10 openvt -c "$CONSOLE" -- /bin/true || true setlogcons "$CONSOLE" || true To revert to the default: setlogcons '' -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
