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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to take input at the startup script!! Post 302171343 by wrapster on Thursday 28th of February 2008 09:01:24 AM
Old 02-28-2008
how to take input at the startup script!!
Hi all,

I am trying to modify a startup script...
The problem is that i am unable to figure out how to take inputs from the user at the startup screen and proceed with the processing accordingly...

Eg:
$ echo "this is a test" (typically this would produce the output)...
$ echo "this is a test" >/dev/msglog (this is used to produce the same output before shell is initialized)...

Similarly,i wanted to know the equivalent for the read statement!!!!
eg:
$ read x (usually reads <something> to variable x)
How can i incorporate the same at the startup??

thanks
 

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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9

msglog

msglog(7D)							      Devices								msglog(7D)

NAME

       msglog - message output collection from system startup or background applications

SYNOPSIS

       /dev/msglog

DESCRIPTION

       Output from system startup ("rc") scripts is directed to /dev/msglog, which dispatches it appropriately.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Stable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       syslogd(1M), syslog(3C), attributes(5), sysmsg(7D)

NOTES

       In  the	current  version of Solaris, /dev/msglog is an alias for /dev/sysmsg.  In future versions of Solaris, writes to /dev/msglog may be
       directed into a	more general logging mechanism such as syslogd(1M).

       syslog(3C) provides a more general logging mechanism  than /dev/msglog and should be used in preference to /dev/msglog whenever possible.

SunOS 5.10							    13 Oct 1998 							msglog(7D)
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