From: mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley) Subject: Re: /dev/console problem (file descriptor refers to VC at time of Date: 9 May 1993 20:09:26 GMT
In article <736951082.10565.0@judith.res.andrew.cmu.edu>, Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> I noticed a problem with /dev/console handling when I was configuring
> syslogd to log both to the console and a file (you do this by putting separate
> entries on different lines). It always logged to the VC where I started syslogd,
> or /dev/tty1 if I started it from /etc/rc. It isn't syslogd's fault, I wrote a
> test program which does an open() of /dev/console (char device 4/0) and then
> while (1)'s a write to the fd. It keeps outputting on the VC it was started
> from, and the is no output on other VC's when I switch to them. I think it
> would be better if write()'s to /dev/console outputted to the VC at the time
> of the write(), not the open().
>
Are you sure your /dev/console is set up as /dev/tty0 not as /dev/tty?
Do an ls -l /dev and see which it matches. I have by /dev/console on
/dev/tty8 since I don't like an error loop to block up all my VCs.
BTW I would have replyed by mail but the original author had a + in his
address - I suggest he gets rid of it ASAP.
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