"Nikolai Weibull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6/20/06, Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ... which is handy in screen while screen doesn't >> let you scrollback > > After I did a ':scrollback 0', or what? > >> > the problem is that /var/log/messages is 0600 and owned by root:root >> > (and I don't want to change that). > >> sudo is your friend! > > I don't want to go through sudo just to read system messages. (Of > course, how much sensitive data can one really find in > /var/log/messages, so perhaps I can just set it to 0640?)
Why not? What do you mean by "going through sudo"? Sudo really is your friend in a secure environment. Just do "sudo tail -f /var/log/messages" and type in your password. (or fix sudoers so it doesn't ask for a password - I add myself to group "wheel" and set up group wheel in sudoers that way..) > It often seems that whenever I post a question to a mailing list, > people are more than eager to solve a different problem than the one I > am interested in. I wonder why that is... I think this is the same problem - the question is, what are the possible solutions to that problem... > Anyway, let's assume then that I don't write my messages to > /var/log/messages and only write them to /dev/tty12 (or a similar > device). Now, how do I display the output sent to terminal /dev/tty12 > (or similar) in a window in screen? tail -f /dev/tty12 or sudo tail -f /dev/tty12 or sudo multitail /dev/tty12 (never heard of multitail before, love it! that will allow me to cut down the number of log monitoring windows... I monitor with swatch and tail on system logs and apache logs...) Best regards, Eric _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
