On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 07:20:40PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 18:15:45 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: > > 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 > > > > What's it with the "true"?
It is part of an init.d script that runs with -e set (exit on error). IIRC those two lines could have legitimate reasons to fail (Don't remember exactly why) and I didn't want them to fail the script. I figure you should remove them. -- 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]
