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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!n1van.istar!van.istar!west.istar!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!chi-news.cic.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Syslogd Output to Printer Date: 18 Jul 1996 11:57:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4sl8qf$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4sjko5$964@herald.concentric.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Judasg@cris.com (Damien Thorn) wrote: > While I'm asking device-related questions, is there an easy way to > configure syslog to dump output to a dot matrix printer rather than > to the console? Add /dev/lpt0 as the target in some line in /etc/syslog.conf. Select the appropriate facilities and log levels that does allows you to keep your sanity. ;-) We've recycled an old dust-collecting dot-matrix printer for just this purpose as well in our company. Now you can hear the BAD SU's. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)