Re: /dev/console
Hi, thanks for the response. I have those same lines in my syslog.conf...
that should work for an XConsole when I'm running X... but what about when
I'm not running X? How could I get the normal console device to display
log messages?
Also, does anyone know why Debian uses a symlink to tty0 while other
distros use the real console device? What are the
advantages/disadvantages?
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Martin Fluch wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Nagilum wrote:
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> > Example: I have:
> > auth,authpriv.* /dev/console
> >
> > in my syslog.conf. These messages should then be logged to the console
> > (among other places). The slackware 7 box handles it fine, but I don't
> > get any console output at all on the Debian machine.
>
> I have the lines
>
> # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it,
> # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
> #
> # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
> #
> # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
> # busy site..
> #
> daemon.*;mail.*;\
> news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
> *.=debug;*.=info;\
> *.=alert;\
> *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
>
> at the bottom of my syslog.conf, which seems to do the thing you want to.
>
> Martin
>
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