[plug] inittab respawn

[Robert Andrews]

Thanks for that Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Kemner" <zombie at wasp.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] inittab respawn


> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Robert Andrews wrote:
>
> > As I said before I understand that it is not possable to see boot up
> > messages on a terminal that does not exits
>
> You can configure linux to use a serial console, so boot messages are sent
> down the serial port instead.
>
> > Also issueing init q on my terminal does not display the errors messages
> > that are displayed on the "actual linux terminal'
>
> Have a read of the syslog manual page, and configure syslog up to do what
> you want.  It is certainly possible to have init's errors sent to a
> logfile, because they are sent to /var/log/daemon.log by default on
> Debian.
>
> If you wish to see every single error message on every single console when
> you are logged in (and not just as root)
>
> add this line to your /etc/syslog.conf:
>
> *.* *
>
> This will get very tiresome very quickly though, especially when you are
> in the middle of editing some file and you keep getting syslog messages
> printed over the top of your terminal.  A better idea is to send it to a
> file
>
> *.* /var/log/everything.log
>
> and then run "tail -f /var/log/everything.log" from the terminal you want
> to read this from.
>
> Even better would be to work out exactly what errors you want to see, and
> what you don't, and configure syslog appropriately.
> For example I have an "xconsole" open permanently which receives these
> logs:
>
>
daemon.*;mail.*;news.none;*.=debug;*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;cron.none;local
7.none    |/dev/xconsole
>
> but what you find important will no doubt be very different to what I find
> important.
>
> > I have also checked dmesg the errors are not displayed there iether
>
> dmesg is for kernel errors only.  Syslog handles most everything else
>
>  - Matt
>
>
>