Redirecting console message on a 3b2

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <|$H^X`&@rpi.edu> night at pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) writes:
> Does anyone know how to redirect console messages to a file on a
> 3b2/300 or 3b2/400?  Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

In article <165 at genco.bungi.com>, rad at genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes:
> This wouldn't get rid of all messages but you could edit /etc/inittab and
> change >/dev/console to a file. Be careful which ones you redirect.
> There may be a better solution but I don't know of one.

Modifying inittab is not the right answer either, as this won't get
any of the daemon processes or kernel messages and the like.  There is
a console logging facility in the newer versions of UNIX (Sys V R3.2)
that put ALL console output into a file, usually /usr/lib/conlog.  If
your UNIX has the file /boot/CONLOG it probably can run this.

I have not set this up, but /dev/osm is the kernel access to the console
log, and /etc/rc2.d/S80errstart is the boot-time script supporting it.

     Steve

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Why not add Hollerith fields to printf?