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SYSMSG 7D "Oct 13, 1998"
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
Interface Stability Stable
SEE ALSO

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