Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

[Norberto Meijome]

Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Norberto Meijome wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps the ttyv7 isn't properly created until after all the local rc 
>> scripts are run?  That's all I can think.
>>
>> you may want to edit the syslogng.sh to add some debug lines to see if 
>> ttyv7 is up @ that point in time. based on the result of this, you may 
>> want to background (sleep? wait and try again?) the launch of syslogng 
>> until after the ttyv7 is ready.
>>
>> or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the 
>> ttyvs are launched before syslogng
> 
> 
> Given that anything in /usr/local/etc will start after anything in /etc, 
> I would really expect a virtual tty to be available.  I don't suppose 
> that syslogng is logging an error anywhere?  (Not on ttyv7, obviously :-))

yes, of course. I guess one other thing to do would be to ktrace the 
actual call to syslogng and figure out what's going on.