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Subject: Re: X11R4 for i386 Unix
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.125600.24155@brian386.uucp>
Date: 28 Jun 90 12:56:00 GMT
References: <1990Jun22.211741.979@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <1990Jun23.015312.9456@virtech.uucp> <1990Jun25.134223.20131@virtech.uucp>
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cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:

>In article <1990Jun23.015312.9456@virtech.uucp>, I wrote:
>> As far as I know, none of the 386 unix offerings can be configured to use
>> a serial port as the console.  This would be a very good feature, especially

>Obviously I don't know it all.  Reportedly both SCO Xenix and SCO Unix
>have this capability.  I just wish I had it on my system (how about it
>Interactive?  When can we expect such a feature?).

How about this idea??
/etc/rc.d/errlogger
	(stty 1200; cat "/dev/osm" > /dev/tty01) < /dev/tty01 &

This seems to work pretty well and will run as long as your system does.  Plus
you get a copy of all the start up messages (free mem, etc, what a DEAL ;-).
Of course you need to have Operating System Messages configured in your
kernel for this to work.

	brian