stern@polygen.UUCP (Hal Stern) (10/09/87)
i would like to catch and record all console messages in
a manner similar to /usr/adm/messages under Sun/BSD Unix.
my guess is that this involves some combination of kern_loop,
and cat -u > /usr/adm/messages, but if anyone else has tackled
this one already i'll not reinvent the wheel.
honestly, i find that the uerf mechanism is a complete shambles.
information is too hard to find, and it is *very* difficult to
locate a detailed section of properly time-sequenced events to
see exactly "what happened" before the system crashed. does
anyone have an idea why DEC chose this vms-style error logging?
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