From: Alan M Webb <awebb@vnet.ibm.com>

This patch just tightens up console handling in BasOpenSimServer
and removes (or redirects) a couple of messages that were being issued
using Console.Writeline.

OpenSim/Framework/Console/ConsoleBase.cs

@@ -49,8 +49,6 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Console
             m_componentName = componentname;
             m_cmdParser = cmdparser;
 
-            System.Console.WriteLine("Creating new local console");
-
             m_log.Info("[" + m_componentName + "]: Started at " + DateTime.Now.ToString());
         }
 

OpenSim/Framework/Servers/BaseOpenSimServer.cs

@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
         /// </summary>
         public virtual void Shutdown()
         {
-            m_console.Close();
+            if(m_console != null)
+            {
+				m_console.Close();
+            }
             Environment.Exit(0);
         }
         
@@ -68,9 +71,9 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
             switch (command)
             {      
                 case "help":
-                    m_console.Notice("quit - equivalent to shutdown.");
+                    Notice("quit - equivalent to shutdown.");
-                    m_console.Notice("show uptime - show server startup and uptime.");
+                    Notice("show uptime - show server startup and uptime.");
-                    m_console.Notice("shutdown - shutdown the server.\n");
+                    Notice("shutdown - shutdown the server.\n");
                     break;
                     
                 case "show":
@@ -96,10 +99,24 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
             switch (ShowWhat)
             {
                 case "uptime":
-                    m_console.Notice("Server has been running since " + m_startuptime.ToString());
+                    Notice("Server has been running since " + m_startuptime.DayOfWeek + ", " + m_startuptime.ToString());
-                    m_console.Notice("That is " + (DateTime.Now - m_startuptime).ToString());
+                    Notice("That is an elapsed time of " + (DateTime.Now - m_startuptime).ToString());
                     break;                    
             }
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Console output is only possible if a console has been established.
+        /// That is something that cannot be determined within this class. So
+        /// all attempts to use the console MUST be verified.
+        /// </summary>
+        private void Notice(string msg)
+        {
+            if(m_console != null)
+            {
+                m_console.Notice(msg);
+            }
+        }
+
     }
 }

ThirdParty/3Di/RegionProxy/RegionProxyPlugin.cs

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.ApplicationPlugins.RegionProxy
 
         public void Initialise(OpenSimMain openSim)
         {
-            Console.WriteLine("Starting proxy");
+            m_log.Info("Starting proxy");
             string proxyURL = openSim.ConfigSource.Configs["Network"].GetString("proxy_url", "");
             if (proxyURL.Length == 0) return;
 
@@ -543,4 +543,4 @@ namespace OpenSim.ApplicationPlugins.RegionProxy
 
         #endregion
     }
-}
+}