Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!ucbcad!ames!umd5!decuac!felix!zemon From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Redirecting console messages Message-ID: <16514@felix.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 87 22:14:37 GMT References: <15559@felix.UUCP> Sender: zemon@felix.UUCP Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 31 Approved: zemon@felix.UUCP Reply-Path: In article <15559@felix.UUCP> wyatt@cfa.UUCP (Bill Wyatt) writes: > >I'm running Ultrix 2.0, Xv10R4 on a VSII/GPX ... > >Next, as recommended in the above README, I put this line in /etc/ttys: > > qconsole "/usr/bin/xcons ttyv0" none on > >This did nothing, even with kill -1 1, shutdown and back up, or rebooting. >To no avail, I also tried: > > qconsole "/usr/bin/xcons ttyv0 qconsole" none on > >Questions: > >1) What's the correct /etc/ttys line? Under Ultrix 1.2, I found that init, being a somewhat goofy program, used exactly 8 characters for the device, and didn't allow for a '\0' to terminate the string. ("qconsole" is 8 characters long) After laughing, and muttering "typical stock UNIX junk", I rename qconsole to qdcons. I now use this in /etc/ttys qdcons "/usr/bin/xcons ttyv0" dumb on and /dev/qdcons is 42,1 mode 666. This seems to work for most things, but I seem to recall some things still getting scribbled on the console. So I bind f.refresh to meta-shift-right down in my .uwmrc. John