[comp.unix.questions] Console Redirection

garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.EDU (Gary Faulkner) (09/29/89)

I heard that berkeley has developed a program which redirects ALL output which
would go to the console to a file.  Has anyone heard of that, and/or
does anyone
know where I might get the source?

Any help appreciated!


Gary Faulkner
National Center for Supercomputing Applications - University of Illinois
Internet: garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Disclaimer:  I've only stated my opinion, not anyone elses.

gnb@bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond) (10/02/89)

In article <1989Sep28.203238.5916@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
		garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.EDU (Gary Faulkner) writes:

   I heard that berkeley has developed a program which redirects ALL
   output which would go to the console to a file.  Has anyone heard
   of that, and/or does anyone know where I might get the source?

I wrote a little hack to do this on our Sun server.  As long as your
tty driver has a TIOCCONS become-the-console ioctl, and ptys, then it
should work.  It is in the sunspots archive, under the name
consolelog.shar (I think) on titan.rice.edu.  If there is interest, I
can post it to comp.sources.unix etc.  I'd rather not mail hundreds of
copies across the pacific, however....

Greg.


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