Sending Errors to A Specific Console?

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Mon Oct 31 22:56:56 UTC 2011


Hart Larry  <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>Hi All:  This is first of 2 complicated questions?  The other evening I had a 
>hard-drive failure--and 9 lines of errors were blasting out, but even worse 
>each time I would change consoles, the same errors showed up again.  So my idea 
>would be if first I could select a console such as tty22  where all error 
>messages would go.  

On my machines (which are running Debian), log messages appear only on tty1. I
don't know where this is configured, but it is the default at least for this
distribution.





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