One idea would be to chvt (man chvt) to a terminal and pipe that output to a file or, install netcat early on, then pipe the output through netcat (across the network) to your daemon. In fact, you could have netcat listening on your monitoring server and forget writing a daemon all together. --joey On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:02:49PM -0600, Egan Ford wrote: > I am creating a small python daemon that gets starting in %pre to allow remote > access to a node during install. The purpose is to monitor the installation of > a large number of machines in a more automated fashion. > > Are they any files that I can tail to get the status of the installation? > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list