----- Original Message ---- From: M Harris <harrismh777@earthlink.net> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:31, Simon Roberts wrote:

This, I guess, is probably a generic Unix question, No, most Suse users will never do this...

I meant "generic" in the sense that perhaps it's related to buffer manipulation and not specific to Linux, not that it was commonplace! :) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I want to attach to the output stream of an existing terminal. You will need to redirect your console to /dev/tty10... then have another terminal or shell monitor the output (could be as simple as minicom... with history, hung off the machine over a null modem) I've done this plenty of times... in fact... all of my headless boxes have the console directed to the serial port.

The problem is that I'm getting a recursive kernel panic. . . which I guess is reasonable in the event of a panic, as not much of the kernel's behavior will be trustworthy . . . uh, no. A "kernel panic" is a "casters-up" dead-as-a-doorknob condition...

Uh, right, that's what I want to do. But _how_ do I do it? What commands do I type and where? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the kernel is not running... it has stopped. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- True, the panic kills it, but it takes quite a while (minutes) to die. It's generating recursive faults for quite a while, and it's still writing to the screen of tty10 if I'm already viewing that (but kills the keyaboard, so I can't change to that VT if I'm not already there). But there seems to be some hope at least that it might still write to the serial port. I don't want it to even try to write to the disk, however, since that might just trash the entire filesystem. That's what I was trying to get at by "reasonable". If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work, but it can't hurt to try. Or perhaps Linux has a kdb equivalent? Thanks again, Simon ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org