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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Not on System Console; Connection to host lost. Post 4599 by LivinFree on Friday 27th of July 2001 04:43:25 AM
Old 07-27-2001

You're not trying to log in as root, are you? Most of the time, "root" cannot log in from places other than the console... even then some setups may not even allow you to log in at the console. Be one with the sudo and the su commands... They are your friends...

Just a guess, but given my limited SunOS/Solaris knowledge, that'd be my first guess...


 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

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)
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