X11R4 for i386 Unix
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Thu Jun 28 22:56:00 AEST 1990
cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <1990Jun23.015312.9456 at virtech.uucp>, I wrote:
>> As far as I know, none of the 386 unix offerings can be configured to use
>> a serial port as the console. This would be a very good feature, especially
>Obviously I don't know it all. Reportedly both SCO Xenix and SCO Unix
>have this capability. I just wish I had it on my system (how about it
>Interactive? When can we expect such a feature?).
How about this idea??
/etc/rc.d/errlogger
(stty 1200; cat "/dev/osm" > /dev/tty01) < /dev/tty01 &
This seems to work pretty well and will run as long as your system does. Plus
you get a copy of all the start up messages (free mem, etc, what a DEAL ;-).
Of course you need to have Operating System Messages configured in your
kernel for this to work.
brian
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