SVR3 console message capturing

[John Fenk]

In article <184 at thebes.Thalatta.COM>, gregoire at Thalatta.COM (Keith Gregoire) writes:
> 
> I am running Bell Tech System V/386, release 3 on a Bell Tech 386.
>  
> I am looking for a way of capturing console error messages (notices, 
> warnings and panics) to a file (or at least a printer) such as


(This assumes that thew Bell Tech UNIX behaves like Intel's version of UNIX)
The kernel keeps a buffer of PANIC, WARNING, driver printf's, etc.
There are two easy ways to read it.  First go into crash and type "panic".
The messages will be printed.  The second way is to create a character special
file for the "osm" driver (make sure it's configured into your kernel and check
the major number by looking in /etc/conf/systems and
/etc/conf/modules/osm/config. Then you can use cat or tail to look at the
messages (cat /dev/osm).

John Fenk
Intel Corporation
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