Re: xconsole messages
On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> What is the advantage of making a named pipe and going through all
> that when it works fine in this straightforward manner?
1. You'll hit the filesystem less. Since you don't have a '-' before
the file, syslogd does a sync after every write. If you do put the '-'
in, you won't see the messages till the next time those buffers get
flushed; that kind of takes away the whole point of running xconsole.
2. You have this nasty file in your root partition that gets bigger and
bigger. It's probably a good idea to keep activity to your root
partition to a minimum. If you suffer some disaster, you can still
boot.
3. It's a cool feature, and you should use it.
Guy
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