[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-acpi-scripts + console + gnu screen ircase?effect
Trent W. Buck
twb at cybersource.com.au
Tue Apr 13 02:11:32 UTC 2010
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).
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