Re: xconsole messages

[Bill Hogan <bhogan@rahul.net>]

"GM" == Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:

  GM> On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Dale Miller wrote:
  >> I had that already there exactly as you mentioned and still no luck.
  >> Any other ideas??

  GM> When you start xconsole, does it give a message "Couldn't open
  GM> /dev/xconsole"?  Check the permissions of the file.

  GM> Does stuff get written to the files in /var/log and not to the xconsole?
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    Exactly.

    Here is my /etc/syslog.conf:

# cat -etv /etc.syslog.conf
-------------------------------quote ---------------------------------
$
auth.*^I^I^I^I^I^I^I/var/log/auth.log$
daemon.*;mail.*^I^I^I^I^I^I/var/log/daemon.log$
news.crit^I^I^I^I^I^I/var/log/news.crit$
news.err^I^I^I^I^I^I/var/log/news.err$
news.notice^I^I^I^I^I^I/var/log/news.notice$
*.=debug^I^I^I^I^I^I/var/log/debug$
*.=info;*.=notice;*=.warn;auth.none;cron.none;daemon.none;mail.none;news.none^I/var/log/messages$
*.emerg^I^I^I^I^I^I^I*$
$
auth.*;daemon.*;mail.*;news.crit;news.err;news.notice;*.=debug;*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;cron.none^I|/dev/xconsole$
------------------------------- unquote ------------------------------

    Given this syslog.conf, if I (as root) issue the command

	# xconsole &

then the output from (user) commands that like

	$ free > /dev/console

explicitly address `/dev/console' appears in my xconsole window, but
system messages that appear in `/var/log/auth.log', for example, do
not appear in my xconsole window.

    Should they?

    Bill

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