[Techtalk] monitoring realtime stuffs on F1 console

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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and if you need more & more output like say kernel debug messages and all
daemon messages, you can redirect your syslog daemon to do so..
i've got two options on it to say.
a)  redirect output from syslog to one of your vc.
eg.

in syslog.conf add a line.

*.*             /dev/tty8
and restart the syslog daemon.
*.* will allow all messages.

b) another option is a bit lengthy. suppose you are a desktop lover and prefer
working on desktop then:

create a piped object. for that you'll have to:
login as root and
mkfifo /dev/xconsole
chown root.tty /dev/xconsole

in syslog.conf add
*.* |/dev/xconsole

then use xconsole (part of xfree86 server package) to view the /dev/xconsole
contents.
xconsole -f /dev/xconsole

there's a drawback :-( you won't be able to get the output when you fireup the
xconsole command as a general user. for that you'll have to create a program
which changes permission on xconsole on execute.

i'm not sure if anyone would go with the second case. If you do go, mail me.
I'll mail you the source code or else do some googling.

rrs

On Monday 22 September 2003 12:03, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Sunday 21 September 2003 3:31 pm, Conor Daly wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:25:47PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> >
> > Carla Schroder thought:
> > > On Saturday 20 September 2003 4:34 pm, Conor Daly wrote:
> > > > Try booting to text-only mode (runlevel 3 on RH,
> > > > runlevel 2 on debian?).  Login and then do 'startx'.  You should get
> > > > some of the diagnostics you mentioned back on tty1 at that stage.
> > > >
> > > > Conor
> > >
> > > You are a firken genius,
> >
> >             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > > Amazing how often it's a silly simple answer. :) And now I get to see
> > > the
> >
> >                            ^^^^^
> >
> > First I'm a genius, then I'm silly?  *humph* hake up yer mind eh?
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Conor
>
> Well, since I have to choose only one.......
> .................................................

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