Re: [expert] redirecting logs to virtual terminals

[dany allard]

Claude

  I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but you can redirect log
output to at TTY by doing the following.

 tail -f  /var/log/messages >> /dev/tty5 &

that should constantly tail the messages to tty5.

hope that helps

  Thanks

  Dany Allard

claude wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to find out how syslog gets redirected to the 12th virtual
> terminal (CRTL-ALT-F12) so that I can view other logs in the same manner.
>                         Thanks in advance,
>                         Claude