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From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: What is exactely /dev/console?
Keywords: /dev/console,
Message-ID: <1079@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl>
Date: 3 Feb 91 22:28:57 GMT
References: <1991Feb1.193832.8060@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1991Feb1.193832.8060@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> you write:
>I have just found that the /dev directory has been somewhat mangled
>after installing SR10.3.p. The install effectively does a 'mkdev /dev
>all' which should rebuild the standard devices; however, it deletes
>the existing devices, as it should, but then doesn't make new ones for:
>
A general question on the /dev/console device.
	When I was rebuilding 'pcnfsd' it got bitten by the fact that it
	could not open /dev/console for writting. (Probably you can write
	/dev/console on a sun. and is it the display)
	So I patched the code to write to a user configurable file.

The reason now for the question is: All /etc/rc.* files dump code to
	/dev/console upon boot. So it is writable!
	But when, how and by whom?

Thanx,
	Willem Jan Withagen.

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