Re: scroll lock on virtual console, messes with whole kernel?

James Mastros (abszero@epix.net)
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 23:08:11 -0400


At 04:01 PM 7/7/97 -0400, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> My guess is you had syslogd dumping to a console.
>With scrl-lock down, the console will block, causing syslogd
>to block. Everything calls syslogd. Don't output syslogd
>output directly to a console, that's BAD.
>
> DS
>

Why do writes to a scr-locked terminal block instead of queuing?

Just a (likely stupid) question...

-=- James Mastros