SYSMSG(4D) Devices SYSMSG(4D)

sysmsg - system message routing to console devices

/dev/sysmsg

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(8).

Only root has permission to write to this device.

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability Stable

console(4D), attributes(7), consadm(8), syslogd(8)

February 17, 2023 OmniOS