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From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Redirecting console messages
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Date: 16 Dec 87 22:14:37 GMT
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In article <15559@felix.UUCP> wyatt@cfa.UUCP (Bill Wyatt) writes:
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>I'm running Ultrix 2.0, Xv10R4 on a VSII/GPX ...
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>Next, as recommended in the above README, I put this line in /etc/ttys:
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>  qconsole "/usr/bin/xcons ttyv0" none on
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>This did nothing, even with kill -1 1, shutdown and back up, or rebooting.
>To no avail, I also tried:
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>  qconsole "/usr/bin/xcons ttyv0 qconsole" none on
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>Questions:
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>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