Redirection in /etc/rc

[Graham Menhennitt]

In article <13400020 at mirror> rs at mirror.UUCP writes:
>    In BSD4.2, is there any good reason why /etc/rc shouldn't
>    have an "exec >/dev/console 2>1" at the top, and punt all
>    those line-by-line redirections throughout it and rc.local?

Our company builds a 68000 based machine which runs a v7/sysIII/4.2
mixture. At one stage I altered /etc/init to make the shell that
runs /etc/rc have is stin/out/err connected to /dev/console. It
worked ok at first. At the time we were developing an intelligent
8 port RS232 board with an on-board 68000. We originally had the
local code executed from a PROM but soon decided that software
revisions were going to be fairly regular and so replaced the
PROMs with RAM. The local code is now downloaded from a UNIX file
by /etc/rc. This produces a problem with the above suggestion.
The device /dev/console is opened before the local code has been
downloaded. I didn't think of doing the "exec >/dev/console 2>1"
trick but I expect it would have worked if I had put it after
the downloading.

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