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Re: /var/log growing rapidly



On Tue,25.Nov.08, 18:58:19, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET)
> "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>:
> 
> ...
> 
> > >  so... what is xconsole?
> > 
> > A very useful app if you can get it to work.  It puts a small window
> > on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages constantly in real
> > time.  It's very nice if you're changing something and want to know
> > the immediate effect it has.
> 
> What are the advantages over 'tail -f /var/log/messages'?

AFAICT you can configure your syslog daemon to send only specific 
messages to xconsole.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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