[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-acpi-scripts + console + gnu screen ircase?effect

[Trent W. Buck]

Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> writes:

> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Darren Salt wrote:
>
>> I demand that Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn may or may not have written...
>>
>> [snip]
>> > Is writing to /dev/console a good idea, at all?  joeuser is not
>> > allowed to do that.  This is how that file is listed on my box:
>>
>> > crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 Mar 15 09:23 /dev/console
>>
>> Probably not a good idea, but if writing to stdout won't work...
>
> You can always use logger instead.

I thought of this, but by default rsyslogd does not write messages to
(login shells?  The terminal?) as /dev/console and the kernel do.  I
have to investigate how to tell rsyslog to write eeepc-acpi-scripts log
events there (as well as the log files).