[SunHELP] /dev/sysmsg?

[Will Mc Donald]

A quick http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%2Fdev%2Fsysmsg&hl=en&meta=

turned up...

http://toons.cs.ucsb.edu:4080/man?sysmsg

NAME
sysmsg - system message routing to console devices

SYNOPSIS
/dev/sysmsg

DESCRIPTION
The file /dev/sysmsg routes output to a variable set of console devices.
Writes to /dev/sysmsg are always directed to the system console
/dev/console, and are in addition directed to a set of auxiliary console
devices managed by consadm(1M).
Only root has permission to write to this device.


ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


----- Original Message -----
From: "Meng, Andrew" <Andrew.Meng at capitalone.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 4:58 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] /dev/sysmsg?


> Hello,
>
> Can anyone tell me what /dev/sysmsg file is for? I means which command or
> utility write/read  to/from it? Does it connect to console?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Andrew