I want to inject some echo's into my SMF startup scripts to report about the progress of my systems startup (and possible problems). Actually I did that, and "echo... > /dev/console" if a special flag-file exists in the /etc/ filesystem.
1) I wanted to make this mechanism more convenient by also logging the information if the kernel was booted with the "-m verbose" or "-v" option; how can a userland program query the options passed to OI kernel? 2) Also, echoing to /dev/console does not put the messages into (local or remote) syslog files. What do the big boys do to properly report things to both syslog and console - issue the string writes twice (echo to console and pipe to "logger"), or is there some standard utility which can output the same logging output to several logging sinks, including the console and syslog, perhaps SNMP traps and whatnot else? 3) Is there a good way to differentiate the "physical" and "serial" consoles, as to address and write to both of them if available? I know that I can write to /dev/term/a when running with a physical console, but I can't be certain in advance that on a particular system this port is plugged as a remote or serial console. And I'm not sure which TTY name addresses the physical screen when the kernel system console from the boot is attached to serial port. Thanks, //Jim Klimov _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
