Sean Liu writes: > Thansk for the replay, first of all. > >> They're not quite muted -- they're redirected to files. See > >> /var/svc/log/milestone-*.log. > Yes but I would like to see they come up on screen instead of logging into > the system and tail -f the log files. > The reasons being: > 1. Quite a few reboots will happen post-installation after patches / packages > being installed. So watching the messages scrolling on the screen is easier > to watch the files. > 2. user experience continuity.
I can sympathize with that, but one of the SMF design goals was to reduce the number of messages printed at boot time. The fact that SMF parallelizes the start-up process makes it a bit more important, as logs from separate services would be jumbled on the screen. For what it's worth, your questions look to me like they're related to SMF design issues rather than system install, so you'd probably be best off asking these questions on smf-discuss at opensolaris.org. > > Using the kernel's command line -- see kernel(1M) -- from either the > > OBP on SPARC or from GRUB on x86. > > But how do you specify it during jumpstart? Jumpstart just deals with install. You still have to boot the system. At the point where you boot (or reboot) the system, you can add "-m verbose,debug" or similar to the command line. You'll then get way more terminal output than you could need. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
