* Dan Jacobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020619 15:15]: > I notice upon shutdown -h now I miss all the neat messages about what > its shutting down, because I am sent to tty1 instead of remaining on > window 7, the xwindow, and I must manually do alt ctrl F7 to go back > and see them. > > I suppose this is for my own good, in case I want to type any last > words or requests into tty1 before power is cut. > > However I miss the orderly turning off of services messages, and feel > that I should get to see them without having to do alt ctrl F7, > especially since that's where I was in the first place.
Well, you could exit X, and then shutdown from the console. In that case, the messages would spew to your current console, (tty1, say) and you'd see them right there. Alternatively, you can specify a particular console to always be "the console" that the kernel spews messages to: add a "console=" parameter to your kernel command line. You can try that once by entering "Linux console=/dev/tty8" at LILO's boot prompt, and if you like it, make it permanent by adding 'append="console=/dev/tty8"' to your lilo.conf and re-running lilo. (Needless to say, these examples only work if you're actually using lilo, not grub or something else.) If you use one of those methods, all kernel messages will be sent to tty8 instead of /dev/tty0, which always refers to the "current" virtual console. (Of course, adjust tty8 to tty1 or tty12, or whatever you prefer). good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.anti-dmca.org/
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