pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) (01/10/90)
bobr@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Bob Rinne) writes:
Bob>The OSM minor numbers are:
Bob> 0 - read device that never returns EOF... therefore anything
Bob> that reads it will always be reading till a signal occurs.
Bob> 1 - reads current contents of buffer and returns EOF.
Bob> 2 - read device that never returns EOF, but starts from the
Bob> beginning of the circular buffer instead of the logical
Bob> "current" position.
Bob>If you don't want to do the mknod by hand everytime you reboot put
Bob>the following in the file /etc/conf/node.d/osm...
Bob>osm osm.0 c 0
Bob>osm osm.1 c 1
Bob>osm osm.2 c 2
On the 3B2 these are called /dev/osm.all /dev/osm.cur and /dev/osm,
respectively.
Me>On our AT&T 3B2 running SYS V R 3.2.1 there's a utility
Me>called 'errint' for reading /dev/osm.
Me>Is this supposed to be standard in SYS V R 3.2?
I was mistaking, errint(1m) reads /usr/adm/errlog which is
filled with 'cat -u /dev/osm.all >/usr/adm/errlog', started
from /etc/rc.
The difference between /dev/osm in the 3B2 and System V/386
is that in the first, each line is prepended with the date,
in seconds since 1-1-1970. Errint translates this into
readable dates, so there is no use for this program in
System V/386.
Bob>Nope, nothing in any of the V.3.x release from AT&T so I doubt if it
Bob>would be in any 386/ix release. "cat" will work although it works on
Bob>BUFSIZ boundaries ... This means up to BUFSIZ bytes will not be in
Bob>the log file.
I suppose 'cat -u' will do. Still a pity you can't find out when
the message has been printed on the console.
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kevin@cfctech.UUCP (Kevin Darcy) writes: >Actually, the errint command on our 3.2.1 3B2's is virtually useless: >it simply *strips out* the date-in-seconds from /usr/adm/errlog, thus >leaving no chronological information. [...] >We ended up writing our own log formatter which decodes the date. errint -t would have worked too. -- Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl CTI Software BV uucp : uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 3542302 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 3512837