Hi, thanks for the response. I have those same lines in my syslog.conf... that should work for an XConsole when I'm running X... but what about when I'm not running X? How could I get the normal console device to display log messages?
Also, does anyone know why Debian uses a symlink to tty0 while other distros use the real console device? What are the advantages/disadvantages? On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Nagilum wrote: > > > Example: I have: > > auth,authpriv.* /dev/console > > > > in my syslog.conf. These messages should then be logged to the console > > (among other places). The slackware 7 box handles it fine, but I don't > > get any console output at all on the Debian machine. > > I have the lines > > # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, > # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option: > # > # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] > # > # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably > # busy site.. > # > daemon.*;mail.*;\ > news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ > *.=debug;*.=info;\ > *.=alert;\ > *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole > > at the bottom of my syslog.conf, which seems to do the thing you want to. > > Martin > > - -- > If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? > > For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBODPGvLCGSMW7I2etAQFIiQP/SKKufVct3zGHIo9owOm5DEIZjEusDfax > 4NLKntdQ83Ql0I6w9xiuWPu2GCt2e/Pqys4fQxe5i+pnzCa4R1x+9PNdTJDfVix9 > cItuoqocBgP208wYW/x3DyA7LvJK9X6kVwJA9g0XrVnnf5QC7iYqtpyjT5QUoXHr > KbkW90Yq5+s= > =FEKd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
