On 1 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: I guess I don't quite understand the purpose of the xconsole program. Re: I have put run-xconsole in /etc/X11/config and xdm starts xconsole in Re: the lower right corner. It gets carried over when someone logs in, Re: but nothing ever appears in it. What is supposed to end up there? On Re: other workstations I have worked on, there is lots of stuff that shows Re: up in xconsole, namely errors, kernel messages that would normally go Re: to the regular console, etc. This doesn't seem to be happening for Re: me. Am I doing something wrong?
[snip] Check out /etc/syslog.conf - it decides what messages that go where. I'm not on my Linux system now so I haven't got the exact incantation, but it's not that complex to figure out. You want to send stuff to /dev/xconsole, so just add a line with the type of messages to print in the xconsole and /dev/xconsole at the end. One line from /etc/syslog.conf of the system I'm on right now (Solaris 2.5.1), just to get the idea: *.err;kern.notice;auth.notice;user.none /dev/console /Michael -- | Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | | Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d1temp |
