sles11: syslog is not redirected to serial port

[helen-fornazier]

For image_tests, to wait for some image to boot, I add a startup script to print the message "BOOTED" and I use Daisy WaitForInstancesSignal, but sles11 doesn't seem to send syslog outputs to the serial port and the test fails.

I tested on the latest sles11:
sles-11-sp4-v20180104 suse-cloud sles-11

[adjackura]

You can't assume startup script stdout will go to the serial console, it's better to write to /dev/ttyS0 directly unless your specifically testing syslog output to the serial console. I don't think we should rely on syslog writing to the serial console at all as it makes a lot of assumptions of the host OS (syslog redirection is setup or that the OS even uses syslog) but that's a separate discussion entirely.

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[helen-fornazier]

Right, I see, I'll update the scripts to write to ttyS0 directly then, so I can rely on WaitForInstancesSignal.
Thanks.