Re: output of var/log/messages on the terminal

[jdow]

On 2011/12/10 14:17, Bluejay Adametz wrote:

  how can i send the  /var/log/messages on a designated terminal?
  i remember some many years ago i saw on of SAs having messages file to 11
or 10 terminal from the moment machine booted. The gain - they just switch
to it instead of typing "tail ....".

Perhaps an entry in /etc/rsyslog.conf to direct messages of the
desired type to /dev/tty11?

I don't practice this myself, but I suspect an entry in /etc/inittab like this 
would
suffice:
tty11::respawn:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages

That might run into problems when the messages log file rolls over.

tail --follow=name -n 100 --retry --max-unchanged-stats=5 /var/log/messages

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