<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >init and syslog output does not display on secondary consoles</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Remote Serial Console HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Bugs and annoyances" HREF="bugs.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Modem hangs up upon reboot" HREF="bugs-reboot.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="The console is unresponsive after connecting" HREF="bugs-whereami.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECTION" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Remote Serial Console HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="bugs-reboot.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix A. Bugs and annoyances</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="bugs-whereami.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECTION" ><H1 CLASS="SECTION" ><A NAME="BUGS-MONITOR" ></A >A.5. <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >init</SPAN > and <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >syslog</SPAN > output does not display on secondary consoles</H1 ><P >The kernel can be configured to output messages to the serial port and to the attached monitor. However messages from <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >init</SPAN > and <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >syslog</SPAN > only appear on the last-listed console device, in our case the serial port.</P ><P >This can confuse someone looking at the attached monitor, as the messages on the monitor suggest that the machine has hung just before starting <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >init</SPAN >. Eventually the machine will finish booting and <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >getty</SPAN > will display a <TT CLASS="PROMPT" >login:</TT > request. A Post-it Note on the monitor may reassure the impatient.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bugs-reboot.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bugs-whereami.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Modem hangs up upon reboot</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bugs.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >The console is unresponsive after connecting</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >