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From: gregoire@Thalatta.COM (Keith Gregoire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: SVR3 console message capturing
Keywords: SVR3, Bell Tech, System V/386
Message-ID: <184@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 18 Aug 88 05:49:50 GMT
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Organization: Thalatta Corporation, Bellevue WA
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I am running Bell Tech System V/386, release 3 on a Bell Tech 386.
 
I am looking for a way of capturing console error messages (notices, 
warnings and panics) to a file (or at least a printer) such as
the way BSD and XENIX do with dmesg.  I have scoured the Bell Tech
System Admin manuals and cannot find a clue as to whether there is 
an existing way to do this.  The dmesg command cannot be found.  
 
I'd rather not reinvent the wheel.  Does anyone have a solution to
this?  I have several ideas:
 
1.	Obtaining a console driver to customize to send output to a file
	as well as the usual places.
 
2.	Obtaining a console driver that can use a hardcopy terminal as
	a console instead of the monitor and keyboard.
 
3.	Write a dmesg that works on SVR3.
 
4.	Can /dev/contty be exploited somehow?  
 
There must be someone else who has had this same problem.  If there is a
way of doing this with the resources I already have with System V/386, 
please let me know what I'm missing via email.
	
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