Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:19:20PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> (it's also constantly tailed on vt12, just in case you need to see >> what's going on it right now) > > I didn't know that. Wow! Is this something relatively new, or has it > always been there?
I installed my first Gentoo server (which is still operating) on 4/13/2006, and I'm pretty sure I could press ALT+F12 at the console for reading syslog (=messages) even then. -Matt