R_Yeo wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and KDE. One thing I miss is having a console
> like in a Solaris machine I have at work. All error messages are sent
> there, and we usually keep in in one corner, as a sort of warning
> window.
> Is in possible in Linux to have a similar console? I'm not refering to
> have an xterm (or whatever) with a tail -f of the /var/log/messages
> file. In Linux, the error messages or warnings are scattered all over,
> depending on where you start your apps from. If you start up from the
> desktop and you have some problem with the app, it just doesn't turn up.
xconsole will do what you want. You'll need to edit /etc/syslog.conf to
tell it to show all messages to /dev/console though. Something like:
*.* /dev/console
at the end of syslog.conf should do it.
Hope you never really USE the text mode though, because that will
splatter log messages all over whatever you're trying to do...
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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