> 1. You'll hit the filesystem less. Since you don't have a '-' before > the file, syslogd does a sync after every write. If you do put the '-' > in, you won't see the messages till the next time those buffers get > flushed; that kind of takes away the whole point of running xconsole.
/dev/console is a char device, there will be no disk io at all. /dev/console is the right place to put console messages to. Unfortunately it is not possible to get rid of messages to the foreground console if u dont use X. It's easy to change this in the kernel, that u can redirect console messages to /dev/tty8 or xconsole, depending if X is running or not. If you run X-only systems /dev/console is OK. You dont have the 'not listening and not logging' problem with a special file. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],ka.sub.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush* (O____O) If privacy is outlawed only Outlaws have privacy
