Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-09 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Jonathan Lupa, > That sounds just geeky enough to work. :) I just love the effect you get when people walk past my workstation at work and say "hey, cool... how did you do that?" :) > Can you point me to some such program? Searching for "log" and "color" > in dselect didn't cut it. That's

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-09 Thread Parrish M Myers
Thanks for your help in the matter. It turns out that the version of eterm I was using did not have the patch in it to look at /dev/xconsole instead of /dev/console. I contacted the maintaner and he hooked me up. I didn't quite get to the point of changing the structure of syslog.conf... but I

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-09 Thread Parrish M Myers
Here are the two I found... I think logcolorize will be eazier to use... but I haven't tried either yet. logcolorise: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~pgp/linux/scripts.html and Generic Colouriser http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-08 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:36:16PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Pipe it through a log-colouriser, and it's even cooler. That sounds just geeky enough to work. :) Can you point me to some such program? Searching for "log" and "color" in dselect didn't cut it. Thanks. -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-07 Thread Adam Shand
> I personally don't think that specifying a term as console shows you > anything all that interesting - at least, it never has for me. > > OTOH, if you do a "tail -f /var/log/syslog" in a transparent Eterm, and > park it in the corner of your screen, you have a very cool XConsole. > Pipe it thro

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-07 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Parrish M Myers, > My problem is in getting Eterm to grab the console messages. I have > tried suid root, I have tried to run Eterm as root. I have even tried > to change the owener of /dev/console. Nothing works... the Eterm just > opens up and gives me a command prompt (normal Eterm usa

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-07 Thread Adam Shand
> My problem is in getting Eterm to grab the console messages. I have > tried suid root, I have tried to run Eterm as root. I have even tried > to change the owener of /dev/console. Nothing works... the Eterm just > opens up and gives me a command prompt (normal Eterm usage). Is there > anythi