> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Philp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 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.
> 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...
I did this - and see nothing on the output... even when I get
"loggable offenses". Any thoughts? I too miss my Solaris console.
Don
