> 1) Have a line like this in your syslog.conf: > auth.*;daemon.*;mail.*;news.crit;news.err;news.notice;*.=debug;*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;cron.none > |/dev/xconsole > The '|' is the imporant character. It tells syslogd that the file is a fifo. > > 2) Make the fifo like this (as root): > mkfifo -m 644 /dev/xconsole > > 3) Run xconsole like this: > xconsole -file /dev/xconsole > > It should work beautifully. What you may be missing is step 2. That's > documented in the syslog.conf man pages. > > Guy > > I had that already there exactly as you mentioned and still no luck. Any other ideas?? I haven't changed anything from the x packages or a least very little. I start xdm on bootup if that makes any difference. I use fvwm and have the latest elf X11 packages.
Any help would be apprecited. Dale
