Re: fetch/mail and xconsole

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 09:47:03AM +0000, Brian Skreeg wrote:
...
  > 2. How do I direct program output to appear in this window? Before I 
  > discovered xconsole I just used an Xterm to display whatever was sent
  > to /dev/console by just launching progs like...;
  > 
  > fetchmail > >&/dev/console 
  > 
  > This doesn`t work with xconsole.

Use `logger' to write things to the logs (including the console, which
displays some of them.)  Full details in `man logger'.

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