terry white wrote: > : produced as syslog output ... but it seems ok > > : cfline(kern.warn;*.err;authpriv.none /dev/tty10) > > this is just a guess. above you are sending 'syslogd' output to > vt10. my inittab vt's entry look like this: > > "9:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty9" > > RH ships with a default of 6 vt(s), so i had to add the rest. you will > note that each vt is tied to 'mingetty'. if you don't have an entry in > 'inittab' for the tenth vt, it seems to me that 'syslogd' output is going > to hang at "mingetty's" target. VTs are created on demand. If syslog opens /dev/tty10, the corresponding VT will be created if it doesn't already exist. If /dev/tty10 is being used for syslog, /etc/inittab *shouldn't* be running a getty on it (whilst doing so won't interfere with syslog's operation, you probably wouldn't actually want to log in on a terminal which is going to have syslog output dumped onto it, so there's no point running a getty on it). -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
