Re: xconsole messages

[Dale Miller <dale@csd.uwo.ca>]

> 1) Have a line like this in your syslog.conf:
> auth.*;daemon.*;mail.*;news.crit;news.err;news.notice;*.=debug;*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;cron.none      |/dev/xconsole
> The '|' is the imporant character.  It tells syslogd that the file is a fifo.
>               
> 2) Make the fifo like this (as root):
> mkfifo -m 644 /dev/xconsole
> 
> 3) Run xconsole like this:
> xconsole -file /dev/xconsole
> 
> It should work beautifully.  What you may be missing is step 2.  That's
> documented in the syslog.conf man pages.
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
I had that already there exactly as you mentioned and still no luck.
Any other ideas?? I haven't changed anything from the x packages
or a least very little. I start xdm on bootup if that makes any difference.
I use fvwm and have the latest elf X11 packages.

Any help would be apprecited.

Dale