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Re: VTs (was: How to get more developers)



On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:17:47PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> It is userspace - meaning: you have to log in first before you have
> consoles. I fins it very comfortable on Linux, to have syslog output sent to
> tty12. So no matter what happens, I can simply switch to tty12 and see
> what's going on internally in my computer. That will not be possible that
> easy in userspace.

"screen tail -f /var/log/messages". Or build xconsole-like log-following
into screen (it's got internal telnet support already).

-- 

Adam Sampson
azz@gnu.org



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