Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
[I'm catching up on a bunch of FreeBSD mail since being out on vacation, so perhaps I've missed the essence of this thread..] I've also had the desire to capture the output produced when /etc/rc is run for all the reasons mentioned. I always thought that perhaps init would simply capture stdou

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
[I'm catching up on a bunch of FreeBSD mail since being out on vacation, so perhaps I've missed the essence of this thread..] I've also had the desire to capture the output produced when /etc/rc is run for all the reasons mentioned. I always thought that perhaps init would simply capture stdout

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Pritchard
> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > It dawned on me what can be done. Look, we get all the kernel printf's > > from the dmesg output saved in a buffer and pull that out later with > > syslog, looks like we could just slip a pipe fitting into /dev/console > > that copies all it's output into the me

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Pritchard
> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > It dawned on me what can be done. Look, we get all the kernel printf's > > from the dmesg output saved in a buffer and pull that out later with > > syslog, looks like we could just slip a pipe fitting into /dev/console > > that copies all it's output into the mes

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No. The scrollback may be too short (especially after an fsck of a > > large filesystem after a crash), and it may even be empty (if you put > > something like VESA_132x60 in allscreens_flags in rc.conf) > We can tune the size of the scroll back b

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > > No. The scrollback may be too short (especially after an fsck of a > > large filesystem after a crash), and it may even be empty (if you put > > something like VESA_132x60 in allscreens_flags in rc.conf) > We can tune the size of the scroll back buffer can't we? Yes

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Doug
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > It dawned on me what can be done. Look, we get all the kernel printf's > from the dmesg output saved in a buffer and pull that out later with > syslog, looks like we could just slip a pipe fitting into /dev/console > that copies all it's output into the mesgbuf as wel

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Doug
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > It dawned on me what can be done. Look, we get all the kernel printf's > from the dmesg output saved in a buffer and pull that out later with > syslog, looks like we could just slip a pipe fitting into /dev/console > that copies all it's output into the mesgbuf as well

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > > > [moving to -hackers] > > [I'm going to loose the rest of this thread since I am not on hackers :-(] > > Shame on you. :) The volume of mail became too high for my time a long while ago. :-( > > > "Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > > > [moving to -hackers] > > [I'm going to loose the rest of this thread since I am not on hackers :-(] > > Shame on you. :) The volume of mail became too high for my time a long while ago. :-( > > > "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > > > Actually I would li

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Doug
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > [moving to -hackers] > [I'm going to loose the rest of this thread since I am not on hackers :-(] Shame on you. :) > > "Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually I would like _all_ the output from /etc/rc* to be avaliable > after boot.

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Doug
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > [moving to -hackers] > [I'm going to loose the rest of this thread since I am not on hackers :-(] Shame on you. :) > > "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > Actually I would like _all_ the output from /etc/rc* to be avaliable > after boot. One of the th

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> "Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One thing I'd like very much, though, would be to have the output of > > > fsck -p logged somehow [...] > > Actually I would like _all_ the output from /etc/rc* to be avaliable > > after boot. It should be in the syscons scroll back buffer, [

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > > > One thing I'd like very much, though, would be to have the output of > > > fsck -p logged somehow [...] > > Actually I would like _all_ the output from /etc/rc* to be avaliable > > after boot. It should be in the syscons scroll back buffer, [...] > > No. The sc

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One thing I'd like very much, though, would be to have the output of > > fsck -p logged somehow [...] > Actually I would like _all_ the output from /etc/rc* to be avaliable > after boot. It should be in the syscons scroll back buffer, [...] No.

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > > One thing I'd like very much, though, would be to have the output of > > fsck -p logged somehow [...] > Actually I would like _all_ the output from /etc/rc* to be avaliable > after boot. It should be in the syscons scroll back buffer, [...] No. The scrollback may b

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> [moving to -hackers] [I'm going to loose the rest of this thread since I am not on hackers :-(] > > "Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So when can we see this commited > > Already done (-CURRENT only). I've had requests (notably from Yan > Koum) to backport it to -STABLE,

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> [moving to -hackers] [I'm going to loose the rest of this thread since I am not on hackers :-(] > > "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > > So when can we see this commited > > Already done (-CURRENT only). I've had requests (notably from Yan > Koum) to backport it to -STABLE, but I won't do it so

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[moving to -hackers] "Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So when can we see this commited Already done (-CURRENT only). I've had requests (notably from Yan Koum) to backport it to -STABLE, but I won't do it so close to a release. > the only

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[moving to -hackers] "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > So when can we see this commited Already done (-CURRENT only). I've had requests (notably from Yan Koum) to backport it to -STABLE, but I won't do it so close to a release. > the only thing I would like >