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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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consadm Specify or Display Devices Used as Auxiliary Console Devices

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/consadm
/usr/sbin/consadm [-a device...][-p]
/usr/sbin/consadm [-d device...][-p]
/usr/sbin/consadm [-p]

Description

The consadm command is new in the Solaris 8 release. Use it to specify the hardware device or devices to be used as auxiliary console devices or to display the current device. Only superuser can make or display auxiliary console device selections.

Auxiliary console devices receive copies of console messages and can be used as the console during single-user mode. In particular, they receive kernel messages and messages directed to /dev/sysmsg ...

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