On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Also, in modern day machines with syslog it's rarely helpful to print
> messages to the console, especially when that console is not a printing
> terminal....

I beg to differ. When some parts of a machine get well and truly
wedged, a kernel printf may still work. And I log all the console
output using Vixie's rtty package.

cjs
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