That frood Benjamin Scott sassed:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Hartnett wrote:
> > Also, when I've played with various Unix and Unix like flavors in the
> > past, you could have a console window open so that you could see if the
> > system was putting out any system messages, does Linux have this? If so I
> > can't find it.
>
> xconsole
Also if for some bizarre reason you don't have xconsole, or if you
don't like it, you can use an xterm to do this as well, via
xterm -C
That will give you a perfectly normal xterm window, except that any
message sent to the console will be printed in it.
Note that the man page indicates this may or may not work on your
system (it works on mine -- presumably it means it won't work on all
platforms). Whether you use xconsole or xterm you need to have
ownership of /dev/console in order to be able to do this. This can be
accomplished in one of several ways... RedHat and others usually do
this via /etc/security/console.perms (see the man page for
console.perms(5)). By default, it appears to be broken (at least it
is on my laptop), so you'll need to fix it.
You can, of course, also change the ownership manually. But that's a
PIA, especially on a multi-user system.
--
We sometimes catch a window, a glimpse of what's beyond
Was it just imagination stringing us along?
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