Re: Showing log messages on desktop

[Rajesh Menon <prm225@cs.nyu.edu>]

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set read perms for all on /var/log/messages, and put this in ~/.xsession:

Eterm -x --no-cursor -g 159x15+0+840 --scrollbar 0 --buttonbar 0 -e grc
tail -n 16 -f /var/log/messages &

I use eterm and grc.

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Tom wrote:

> * [Tuesday 30 March 2004 17:46] <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>):
>
> > > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is
> > > this possible? I've heard something like this.
> >
> > I think there is a software for KDE called Karamba that can do this.
>
> > > > I use Gnome2.4 on testing with 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel.
>
> For Gnome, there's gdesklets.
>
> Greets,
> Tom
>
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rajesh menon at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~prm225/