Re: Autostart application from console

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Jiri Baum <jiri@baum.com.au> writes:

[snip]

> The showlog script
> is: date +"$0 started %c"; /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog

You can also do this by uncommenting some lines in /etc/syslog.conf:

daemon,mail.*;\
        news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
        *.=debug;*.=info;\
        *.=notice;*.=warn       /dev/tty12

So that Alt-F12 displays the most recent syslog messages, with very
little overhead.

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