sysmsg(7D)

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:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability system/core-os Interface Stability Committed

See also

consadm(1m), syslogd(1M) , attributes(5), console(7D)