updating boot_config to print to log file rather than console

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/root_scripts/boot_config.sh b/root_scripts/boot_config.sh
index 4a59a5c..987ca22 100755
--- a/root_scripts/boot_config.sh
+++ b/root_scripts/boot_config.sh
@@ -13,3 +13,10 @@ sysrc -f /boot/loader.conf  autoboot_delay=2
 
 # don't print start messages
 sysrc rc_startmsgs=NO
+
+# create console.log with the proper permissions
+touch /var/log/console.log
+chmod 600 /var/log/console.log
+
+# move from printing errors to the console to printing them to the above console.log file
+sed -i '' 's#^\(\*\.\?err;kern\.warning;auth\.notice;mail\.crit[[:space:]]*\)/dev/console#\1/var/log/console.log#' /etc/syslog.conf