01-08-2009
TTY devices can employ flow-control to stop writes until the output can be written. This is probably happening to you. You could connect to the terminal server and allow it to display the characters. Or you could use syslog.
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sysmsg
sysmsg(7D) Devices 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 |SUNWcsr |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Stable |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
consadm(1M), syslogd(1M) , attributes(5), console(7D)
SunOS 5.10 13 Oct 1998 sysmsg(7D)