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usr.bin/login: send errors to console if syslog isn't running
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Authored by arichardson on Jun 25 2021, 10:00 AM.
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I was debugging why login(1) wasn't working as expected on a minimal
MFS_ROOT disk image. This image doesn't have syslogd running so the
warnings were lost and I had to use GDB to find out why login(1) was
not working as expected (missing PAM libraries).

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