Re: central console?

[Henning Brauer <lists@bsws.de>]

Am Mittwoch,  3. Januar 2001 00:43 schrieb shivak:
> hi all,
>
> I have set up a couple of BSD server boxes (all regular PC i386 hardware).
> I don't have the money or space to keep consoles for each of them, and I
> was wondering of the following is possible: I have an extra mac (i believe
> it is a 68k), with a monitor and a keyboard on it. If I were to run
> openBSD on it, would it be possible to have ALL messages that
> would appear to root on a system console (i.e. messages from the kernel,
> and normal syslog messages like bad su's) to appear on the mac's console
> (or preferably having each machine report to its individual virtual
> terminal) ? I don't want the messages logged on the mac (like a remote
> syslog), I just want them to appear on the screen. Has anyone set up
> anything similar? thanks

Thats easy. On each server use a syslog.conf extry like

*.*    @loghost.yourdomain.com

and on you loghost

*.*    /dev/console

I don't know any way to split this to different virtual terminals by machine, 
I prefer one anyway - place it on your desk and you see everything going on 
in your net on one place. I'm using an 386DX-33 with 8 MB RAM for this... 

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