> -----Original Message----- > From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 February 2006 11:55 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window? > > > Hi, > > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:49 +0000 > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know if I am asking too much here, but is there a way to: > > 1. Continue with all messages shown in tty12 as per default > syslog-ng > > configuration. > > 2. Also show all/some messages to xconsole. > > 3. Do not pipe everything to console during/after boot - the default > > messages there are adequate for my liking. > > > > Perhaps I am a bit confused: what is the relationship > between /dev/console > > and xconsole? > > Ah, the xconsole program man page explains it: By default, xconsole > reads from /dev/console. I didn't knew that. > > What you want to archieve is more like the solution debian uses. I'll > post it here but I haven't tried it out so I cannot promise that it > works: > > syslog-ng.conf: > ---snip--- > destination xconsole { pipe("/dev/xconsole"); }; > destination terminal { file("/dev/tty12"); }; > log { source(src); destination(xconsole); } > log { source(src); destination(terminal); } > ---snip--- > > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: > ---snip--- > xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn > fixed -exitOnFail -file /dev/xconsole > ---snip--- > > That should do what you want to archieve. > Nice alternative to xconsole is root-tail...
I've played around with your suggestions but had no joy with them. Syslog-ng came up with many errors and although I tried different combinations I couldn't get it to work. Root-tail is cool but it gets covered up by different windows. Do you launch it as a default by entering a line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 ? Xconsole does what I want it to do, but I would also like to get tty12 printing all messages and ideally would like xconsole to be positioned above the fluxbox toolbar (height wise). -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
